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Paul Ignatius was assigned to Composite Squadron 80 (VC-80) aboard the USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) as the squadron’s...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

Clarence Robert Duff recalled picking up survivors from the USS Franklin (CV-13) during the kamikaze attacks off...

The morning after Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive...

John Nicholas experienced Japanese suicide attacks on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)]. A wooden...

During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotators Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...

John W. Snyder was born in March 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, Snyder's family was poor. However, because...

After the war was over, three envoys [Annotator's Note: from the government of Japan] were sent to Jack Dunlavy's ship...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] and was put on a list to be a...

Clayton Fisher has a friend named Roy Russell who served in the same bomb group, Bombing Squadron 8 (VB-8), who is...

Paul Lawrence was born Rochelle, Illinois but lived in Ionia, Michigan. He moved to Grand Rapids [Annotator's Note:...

Clayton Fisher planned to join the Army Air Corps until a friend of his joined the Navy as an aviator. Fisher applied...

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