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Hopkins was the 33rd plane to take off. It was the 1st time that Hopkins took off carrying a live bomb. After he took...

Eugene Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos...

Thomas Tizzard says that his most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard to pin down. It could be the first time...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

After Gerald Wayne Lux was in boot camp [Annotator’s Note: in Farragut Naval Training Station near Bayview, Idaho in...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

In July 1946, Paul Ignatius was separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant in Los Angeles [Annotator’s Note:...

Lowell Rodrigue had many dreams about World War 2 and cannot watch movies related to the war. He has been clinically...

William Currier [Annotator's Note: while serving as a radarman aboard the USS Hall (DD-583)] headed to Iwo Jima [...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

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