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Milton Rackham was born in Riggs, Idaho in April 1925 and grew up in nearby Rigby. [Annotator’s Note: Internet...

All of the barnstormers had on the boots, leather jackets and goggles and all had a bottle of spirits in the back seat...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

One time that scared William Beaman happened when the USS Flasher (SS-249) was firing electric torpedoes. They were...

Life at the Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] was very good, and Claude...

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

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

When Claude Taylor turned 18, he enlisted in the Navy. His father had been in the Army in France in World War 1. The...

Joseph Fisher was born in January 1925 in Marshall, Texas. He had one brother who was two years older. He went through...

Noah Lewis was drafted and inducted into the Navy in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was examined by military doctors and then...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

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