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On the morning of the battle, Vejtasa was flying CAP. Jimmy Flately and Johnny Leppla were flying escort for the...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was a crewman on an LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also...

Richard R. Ruess was sent to Canada on the St. Lawrence River [Annotator's Note: after being assigned to the 1st...

Hugh Wingo was at Midway [Annotator’s Note: The Battle of Midway, 4 to 7 June 1942; Midway Island]. This was the next...

Leisey recalls having to do sponge ball therapy so he could build up the strength up in his hand. He has problems...

Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

Sam S. McKeel graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and was offered...

Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

Rob Roy Ratliff joined the Marine Corps and trained with some of the Navajo code talkers. He received a ten day leave [...

As a child in Dayton, Ohio Richard Cole was only a half hour bike ride from McCook Army Airfield where he would go to...

Joseph Fisher was born in January 1925 in Marshall, Texas. He had one brother who was two years older. He went through...

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior [Annotator's Note...

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