Search results

Map is loading...

Norman Sterrie was spotted over the forward elevator just as an explosion below lifted the elevator and him in his TBD...

At Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk, Virginia], James W. Metcalf was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the...

Because James McCorriston had attended machinist mate school, he was transferred to the B Division [Annotator's Note:...

William C. Ellzey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15...

Wahlen was an E-5, Pharmacists Mate 2nd class when he got out of the Navy. His US Army career was over twenty years.He...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

Philip Curran's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when they hit a typhoon outside of the Yellow Sea [...

Jack Pierce thought his experience in the war [Annotator's Note: World War 2] was good. He was glad it ended because he...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan shipped out of San Diego, California to New Caledonia aboard the USS...

[Annotator’s Note: Comments from others off camera can be heard throughout segment.] Edmund Aziz and his ship [...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

Oral History