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Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

Ferrier got to Pearl Harbor the day after the Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet CV-8, aircraft carrier] sailed. They...

James Gaffney experienced no problems with leaks on his PT Boat. The boat construction was tight enough that it did not...

Interviewer asks Delewski if his experience on the Laffey changed him. On the day that all of this happened [Annotator'...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

Benjamin Clark Amsden transitioned to flying the Corsair [Annotator's Note: Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft after...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...

Paul Sparacino's father was in the Army [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] but did not really talk about it....

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