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John Caudle did not have a lot of notice when he was called to active duty. He came home after work one Friday and had...

John "Jack" Raquepau guesses that outside of the Revolution [Annotator's Note: American Revolutionary War, or, American...

Chester Hollingsworth's sub-chaser [Annotators' Note: USS SC-990] initially deployed to perform picket duty [Annotator'...

Lawrence Brooks followed the war while he was in service. One of the islands he was on had Japanese pillboxes. The...

Thomas Kolesa got married. He went to Edwardsville [Annotator's Note: Edwardsville, Illinois] and his mother was crying...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

Ray Gene Gresham digresses to mention that while he was at Camp Crowder, Missouri, he was serving in Company C, 2nd...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk's first combat experience was at...

Meda Royce Hall [Annotator's Note: a US Navy bombsight instructor] had one pilot that gave him some trouble because he...

Nevin Sledge was assigned to be an instructor after graduation. [Annotator’s Note: Sledge graduated in Corpus Christi,...

After Willie D. Knippers spent a year in Hawaii, he was shipped to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] where...

Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...

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