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Eugene Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Sterling Cale was assigned to the 1st Marine Division right after Pearl Harbor. He did not have a proper Marine uniform...

After Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Norman Sterrie...

James Roy Colquitt had his Navy boot camp training at San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. He was...

Walter Bank was born in 1926 in Marlboro, Massachusetts, the youngest of three sons of immigrant parents. His father...

When the assignment at Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Indonesia] was completed, Mark Brannon and the USS Hutchins (DD-...

Randolph Daniel feels a review of the past will help educate young people why things turn out the way they do. Everyone...

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

Baptiste feels that it is important for there to be a National World War II Museum. If they hadn't done what they did...

[Annotator's Note: Someone off camera interjects at various points.] As his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Suwannee (...

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