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James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Mark Brannon was given a 30 day terminal leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time],...

James W. Metcalf was assigned as turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). The...

John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...

Calvin Barrick grew up on a farm. He had four brothers and one sister but two of his brothers have died. Barrick was...

As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...

Sherwin Lansing Eddy and his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Composite Squadron 94 (VC-94) flying from USS Shamrock Bay (...

William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

Ben Ray Bost loved getting Marines on board ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316], especially those from North...

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

On Raymond Birdsall's [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific]...

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