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John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

Alfred Taddeo was with the squadron that became the Blue Angels [Annotator's Note: United States Navy Blue Angels...

Mark Maynard traveled by train from New London, Connecticut to Mare Island which was a replacement depot for submarine...

It was only a storm that allowed the Enterprise [Annotators Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] to not be in Pearl Harbor...

Frank Faust was born in January 1916 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father worked for...

Judge Gordon Thompson recalled preparing for the invasion of mainland Japan in the Leyte Gulf, Philippines. He recalled...

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

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was a crewman on an LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also...

Before the war, Jack Leaming had a Japanese friend in the second grade, whose parents sold Japanese clothing on the...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

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