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[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The...

Charles Bruce was 17 years old when he drove a truck for work. He got a ticket for speeding. He had to pay 20 dollars....

On the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), Pete Brock saw combat in the late stages of the Okinawa campaign [Annotator’s...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

The USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84) joined with another carrier, the USS Kitkun Bay (AVG-71), headed for Leyte in the...

Walter Nelson loved the airplane he flew in [Annotators Note: TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bombers]. It was slow but...

The USS Honolulu (CL-48) went back to San Francisco and Ray Emory was heading for Melbourne, Australia three or four...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] saw kamikazes [Annotator's...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

When Ralph Weymouth left Guadalcanal he returned to the United States. He was flown to Noumea where he boarded the SS...

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was born in August 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in nearby Metairie. His father was...

Harold Buell returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: after flying with the "Cactus Airforce" off Henderson Field on...

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