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Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

George Joseph Sullivan went to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau] in the invasion of the Philippines. There was...

Ferrier got to Pearl Harbor the day after the Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet CV-8, aircraft carrier] sailed. They...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. After a very successful first...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

The Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was out at sea on 7 December [Annotator's Note: for the...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

George Hamilton was born in April 1922 in West Monroe, Louisiana. Hamilton lived in five states before he was six years...

Olaf Rose said he suffered no lasting effects from the war, and had no trouble transitioning from sailor to civilian....

After his Navy training, George Hamilton was assigned to the USS King (DD-242) and spent 16 months aboard her in the...

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