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James T. Connelly was born in June 1922 in Dorange, South Carolina on a farm. His father had to hunt for a job. His...

Frank George Memory worked mainly with the officers [Annotator’s Note: Memory was assistant navigator aboard the USS...

Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

Meda Royce Hall attended Aviation Ordnance School in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia], and graduated in...

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

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Arthur Fishman had one sister growing up. His mother died when he was six years old. A few years later, his father...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

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