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Harlan Twible and many others saw the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] as it went down. They were...

When David Thomason was at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

Windom Joseph Burton went into Navy boot camp in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia] and was then sent for...

Jack Yusen remembers the shells flying by sounded like freight trains and the explosions sounding like thunder. Another...

First, Fiske Hanley said, he prayed [Annotator's Note: after bailing out of his battle damaged Boeing B-29...

Daniel Morisak moved from New Mexico [Annotator's Note: from Alamogordo, New Mexico] to Oakland, California to board a...

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Elroy Gambino's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he won over 5,000 dollars playing blackjack [...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was in engineering school when the Army decided to cancel the program. He was sent to...

William Garbo first entered a combat zone in an Army DUKW [Annotator's Note: an amphibious truck, referred to as a Duck...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

Alfred Taddeo was with the squadron that became the Blue Angels [Annotator's Note: United States Navy Blue Angels...

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