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Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) accompanied a Task Force that included the USS Franklin (CV-13) offshore of...

At the end of January [Annotator's Note: January 1945] in Leyte Gulf, Frederick Grun had his first experience with...

Richard Miralles got word on his 18th birthday that they were going home. He went on liberty [Annotator's Note: an...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson served aboard the USS Jamestown...

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

Alex Vraciu and the other members of his squadron were in their ready room. It was known that this was going to be...

Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

Carl Trim says the tensest time on any trip at sea was when the captain would call everyone to general quarters [...

Mark Maynard traveled by train from New London, Connecticut to Mare Island which was a replacement depot for submarine...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

Harvey Mittleman [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was shipped from...

Edmond Guidry wanted to kill the Japanese for what they did. When the war ended, the United States still did not trust...

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