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Flashing back, Mark Brannon said that after the USS Hutchins (DD-746) left Cairns, Australia the captain [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: A person off screen interjects throughout the interview.] when Harold G. Cowart heard that the...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

After he was discharged, Thomas Tizzard looked for a job. He worked in New Orleans, Louisiana as a conductor on a...

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

Alfred Alvarez was about 16 years old when Pearl Harbor happened [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...

Frederick Ellis and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-751] went back and forth among the islands in the Pacific on...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

When Orville Carroll arrived at Northwest Field on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], the Marines had...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

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