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

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

George Morgan had the unique experience of entering Tokyo Bay prior to the Japanese surrender. His ship was anchored...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Smith left his Mediterranean duty and returned to the US from Oran, Algeria.] He landed in...

From there [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] they returned to Pearl Harbor. There, James Allen joined the Silversides [...

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

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

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