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Randolph Daniel feels a review of the past will help educate young people why things turn out the way they do. Everyone...

William Roy remembers the fighter planes beginning to malfunction after being at sea for so long. A lot of planes'...

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

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

During Donald Dean's career in the Navy, the thing he enjoyed most was sailing along a nice smooth sea when he was off...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

James Paul Lynch's father worked for a man running for Congress. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

Clyde Barber was a member of Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) which flew PBYs [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina]...

[Annotators Note: Norman Kleiss starts the interview by reading a narrative about the causes that led up to the Pearl...

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

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