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Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

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

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Harry Watson described the daily routine of the Segundo [Annotator's Note: USS Segundo (SS-398)]. They would surface at...

Jack Dunlavy was born In Avery, Mississippi in June 1925. It was a small town. His father was a millwright at the...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

Alois Kopp was pleased that the two atomic bombs were dropped. They saved lives in the long run. Both Allied and...

Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

Rollins Rosenzweig was born in 1924 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His father was a prosperous man who had a grocery store...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

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