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Virginia Wilterdink's most memorable experience of the war was hearing the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] returned to his unit...

Gonzales had a brother who was a guerilla who was caught by the Japanese and never returned. All they were able to hear...

Tyler took primary and basic training at Randolph Field then advanced training at Kelley Field [Annotator's Note: San...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

Stanley Wolczyk was born in Cleveland, Ohio in December 1917. His father and mother were both Polish immigrants. They...

Looking back, 65 years after the event, James Muri believes that the Battle of Midway had to be a turning point in the...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Having moored in the harbor at Nagasaki, Japan, Lauren Bruner and some shipmates [Annotator's Note: from the USS...

After being stationed in the Aleutian Islands [Annotator's Note: Alaska], Arthur McHardy was sent to Newport, Rhode...

[Annotator's Note: Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen served in the Navy and was assigned to Pier 92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in...

Jack Leaming joined the US Navy in December 1938 and was assigned to the USS Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS...

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