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

Walter John Guyote cheated on the eye exam to get into the Navy. He was sent to San Diego, California for boot camp. He...

John "Jack" Raquepau was just bombing in the Gilbert [Annotator's Note: Gilbert Islands] and Marshall Islands [...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...

The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

During the battle Commander Becton [Annotator's Note: Admiral F. Julian Becton] was very calm. He gave orders to the...

Soon after the Battle of the Philippines, Murphy Burke remembers spending a week at one of the larger ports, Ulithi....

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

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

William Lee Barnes enlisted in the Navy and was given basic training at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station...

Fred Gemmel's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)] was assisted into a port after sustaining damage [...

Martin Carmody and Les Ward finally joined back up with each other. They had both consumed a lot of fuel during their...

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