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Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Barrick served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Tang (SS-306) and was aboard for that...

After Corregidor fell to the Japanese, Randall Edwards was held there for about a month, during which time the Japanese...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...

Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter pilot with Fighting Squadron 22 (VF-22) aboard...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

Robert D. Shaner's mom was German and was upset with the Germans after the First World War and her German relatives who...

Francis Borrell's first cruise was in the Atlantic Ocean. Borrell believes Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator...

Jack D. Owen was born in Lufkin, Texas in 1926. He had a twin sister and an older brother. Owen’s father struggled...

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