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Arles E. Cole was born in Porum, Oklahoma in December 1923. He grew up there. His childhood was rough. It was the...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

George Hamilton was assigned to a skeleton crew aboard the USS Orleck (DD-886) in Norfolk, Virginia when he first heard...

Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

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

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

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