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Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

On 7 December 1941, Jack Holder was on duty at Ford Island, [Annotator’s Note: Ford Island, Hawaii]. His unit was in a...

Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Walter Nelson recognized that they were close enough that they could have bailed over Australia if they needed to. From...

Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman if the Navy changed between World War 2 and the Korean War.]...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

Martin Sherbecoe recalled a couple of incidents from PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] school. One...

Otis Kight's squadron, VF-42 [Annotator's Note: Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42), USS Yorktown (CV-5)] had the bulk of the...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

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