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Donald H. "Don" Bee served two years in the Navy. He heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

When Harold Ronson got onto the beach at Iwo [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman during his service in World War 2. When the...

Walter Bud Gafford was present on the morning of 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked [Annotator's Note: the...

Ferrier did not like the way they were awarding flight orders to the crewman. Ferrier made his boss well aware of that...

Fred Bergeron was 19 years old when he took part in the Battle of Midway. He did not really have any idea just how...

David Eugene Turnbull was born in March 1925 in Lincoln, Nebraska. His family moved to Blue Springs, Nebraska where his...

Francis Bucher says the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

By the night of 5 August [Annotator’s Note: 1945], Paul J. Murphy had been in the sea for five nights and four days [...

The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

William Leibold was topside with O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane had been the commanding...

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