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Archie Kelley landed at Abemama [Annotator's Note: Abemama Atoll, Kiribati]. They were told there were Japanese...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Thomas Tizzard was aboard the USS Denver (CL-58) when it went into dry dock to be repaired after being torpedoed. The...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

Robert Swan and three other guys in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44)] rented a house. Each...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Elmer Koenig was born in July 1925 in Santa Ana, California. His older sister died in 1918. He grew up in Orange [...

In the Marshalls [Annotator's Note: Marshall Islands] and Gilberts [Annotator's Note: Gilbert Islands], enough planes...

Norman Sterrie finished flight training in the summer of 1940 [Annotator's Note: Sterrie had entered the Navy in...

After his induction in Little Rock [Annotator's Note: Little Rock, Arkansas], Carl Trim was sent to Farragut, Idaho for...

Edward Chinnis was ready to go home after the war but he did have a lot of fun in the Navy. After leaving the Navy, he...

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