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Paul J. Murphy had his first campaign [Annotator’s Note: as a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] in...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

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

Harlan Twible and many others saw the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] as it went down. They were...

William Ward Crawford was born in 1914 in Akron, Ohio. He was aware of the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

Choosing to go in the Navy [Annotator's Note: in 1944] was natural for Philip Curran. He grew up on the water. His...

It was getting dark when they took off after the Japanese fleet. The most Jack Glass had flown up to that point was...

Douglas Holmes Blair was born in December 1925 in Roseburg, Oregon with one brother and a half-brother. Both of his...

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

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

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