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

Harlan Twible was born in Gilbertville, Massachusetts in March 1922. He spent his first 18 years in Gilbertville but...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...

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

Jack Linscott was born in December 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had two sisters and one brother. He was 16 years...

Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the time his submarine [Annotator's Note: the USS...

Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

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