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Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Donald Stratton is from Red Cloud, Nebraska. His family was farmers early on in their lives. Stratton had one sister...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was born in August 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. His father owned a sheet metal business and...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

Frank George Memory went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotators’ Note: San Diego, California] and was assigned to...

One of the chiefs saw Jack Yusen again at the opening of the Taffy 3 memorial and asked Yusen if he remembered him....

Coming back to the United States was kind of boring for Robert D. Shaner. They [Annotator's Note: Shaner and the crew...

Charles Bruce was 17 years old when he drove a truck for work. He got a ticket for speeding. He had to pay 20 dollars....

Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...

Joseph Daquana was born in Plaquemines, Louisiana in May 1928. He was the second youngest child in a family of seven...

Vernon Micheel flew the second attack flight against the Japanese [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting Squadron 6...

Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...

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