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[Annotator's Note: William Roy reviews a series of motion pictures clips he captured during the Battle of Midway in...

David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

Ralph Marcarelli reacted badly to inoculations when he entered the Navy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He missed boot...

After choosing the US Navy, Stanley John Niec attended boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: in...

Rudolph C. Miller's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being stuck in a boat in a harbor in Virginia. It was...

Hugh Wingo was at Midway [Annotator’s Note: The Battle of Midway, 4 to 7 June 1942; Midway Island]. This was the next...

One time that scared William Beaman happened when the USS Flasher (SS-249) was firing electric torpedoes. They were...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

After a year, Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson's flotilla [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 6 (MTBRon 6)] was...

Claude Taylor married his wife after graduating LSU [Annotator's Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,...

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