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Alois Kopp volunteered to go on the USS Houston (CA-30) in 1939 for deployment overseas. The ship was stationed in...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

Fred Arthur Balfour was born in August 1923, in Glens Falls, New York. He lived there until he was 12 years old. When...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

The ship [Annotator's Note: the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13)] wasn't at Pearl Harbor for long before heading...

Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

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