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Besides the attack from the Japanese scout, Carroll Harris did not have any other combat experiences with the Japanese...

Lester Hecht and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Marine Aircraft Group 32 (MAG-32)] trained pilots in Honolulu [Annotator...

William Roy remembers the fighter planes beginning to malfunction after being at sea for so long. A lot of planes'...

Richard H. Kerr was born in June 1946 in Edgerton, Wisconsin. He grew up with a brother and sister. His father was a...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. Thinking about the war, he says that during it he...

[Annotator's Note: There is static noise in the audio throughout clip.] It took Richard R. Ruess 13 hours to fly to...

After an hour [Annotator's Note: of being stranded during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo...

Roy Stewart was in Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan with the 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

Burl Loving was born in January 1927 in Garden City, Kansas. In 1930, his family moved to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

Karr believed that Admiral Becton [Annotator's Note: F. Julian Becton was the Commander of the Laffey] was a very, very...

The weight of Donald Campbell's job was such that he rarely had off-duty time. He was responsible for the division's...

After Japan captured the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fall of the Philippines, invasion by the Empire of Japan, 8...

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