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Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson enlisted in the Navy and was sent to a ship in the Hudson River to train on. He was supposed...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

When they were heading to Tonga, Fred Bergeron and the rest of his air group were dropped off in Fiji. They flew some...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...

Delewski took part in the Normandy operation. That was the first time the Laffey saw action. He was put in charge of...

Fred Bergeron was waiting for a battle like Midway. He was very upset at what had been happening to them. He saw the...

Rudolph C. Miller had no place to go and nowhere to live when he was 16. He tried to forge his certificate [Annotator's...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Patrick Zilliacus thinks that the variety of odd jobs he held before being drafted helped him in duties on a submarine...

The Japanese were treated wrongly and were put into concentration camps [Annotator's Note: forced relocation and...

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