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John Gehrett was born in July 1921 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where grew up and was educated. The family home was on...

Otis Kight and others volunteered for the salvage party to return to Yorktown [Annotator's Note: the USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Bruce McCormick had the opportunity to go to Little Creek [Annotator's Note: now Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek...

On 19 February 1945, Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a first class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction...

In 1940, Randall Edwards boarded the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9) in Tsingtao, China. The Canopus was a "mother...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Initial PT-boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] training for Richard McEwen took place at Newport, Rhode Island...

Socrates Dendrinelis remembers the kamikazes [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide bombers] hitting the ships. It made a...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

Earl Wergin's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his friend was killed. He fought because he felt there...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow did not see any combat [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] like his brothers did, so he...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

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