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James Paul Lynch's skipper [Annotator's Note: his captain, aboard the USS Snook (SS-279)], Chuck Triebel [Annotator's...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Robert Swan and the other officers in his squadron, Patrol Squadron 44 or VP-44, did everything underground while they...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds can be heard chirping in the background throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was born in...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Windom Joseph Burton was aboard the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] when it was hit by enemy...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Rollins Rosenzweig was born in 1924 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His father was a prosperous man who had a grocery store...

Mitchell Zimmer liked the idea of sailing on a smaller boat like a submarine. He was trained in New London, Connecticut...

[Annotator's Note: Someone off camera interjects at various points.] As his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Suwannee (...

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