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Stewart Bass served aboard an Essex class aircraft carrier. [Annotator's Note: Bass served as a Grumman TBM Avenger...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...

Eugene Corson was happy to be in the Navy. It was rough. He went to boot camp in Rhode Island at an airbase. He could...

William “Bill” Knapp volunteered for the US Navy when he was 17 years old. His parents consented to his enlistment....

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

Floyd James Reissig sailed around Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] towards Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note...

When the ship arrived, F. Lincoln Grahlfs went out to sea for ten months. The ship was a patrol craft. After the...

Murphy Burke served in World War 2 because he thought it was the thing an American should do. He feels his experience...

Robert Swan did not select going into patrol planes. Everybody asks for fighters when they go through flight school....

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson was born in April 1925 in Taft...

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