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After the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot the action really slowed down for Alex Vraciu. There was a lot of argument over...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

Burl Loving did his Navy basic training at Great Lakes [Annotator’s Note: Naval Station Great Lakes near Chicago,...

The war did not have much of an effect on Walter Jacobs. He has never had a problem talking about it like a lot of guys...

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...

Edmund Durocher had been in Headquarters Company but was transferred out ten days before they left New River [Annotator...

Harold G. Cowart was born in September 1924 in Statesboro, Georgia. His parents were sharecroppers and he and his 11...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Rufus Harris went to Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for one day. On his last trip, he had just gotten married...

Jack Skaggs and his comrades were loaded aboard the Nitta Maru for departure from Wake. They left on 12 January 1942....

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

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