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Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Fred Bronfin adjusted easily to military life but felt he was losing time in his career. To differentiate between...

Wallace McKay left high school in 1943 and enlisted in the Navy. His enlistment was to end on his 21st birthday. His...

Otis Kight participated in the Battle of Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942]. Few...

Astley Blackwell, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1925. During the depression his family lived with his...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

James Ramage was at Pearl Harbor when the Battle of Midway took place. He was not aboard ship at the time. The...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...

[Annotator’s Note: The video begins with interviewee talking about how he wanted to write a book and working with a...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

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