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Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

The day the affair took place [Annotator's Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19-20 June 1944] they had not had...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee’s wife interjects throughout this clip.] Sherwin Lansing Eddy readjusted to civilian...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

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

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Entemedor (SS-340) in the role of quartermaster. After the commission of the ship...

Robert L. Rorschach was born in Tulsa [Annotator's Note: Tulsa, Oklahoma] in August 1922. It was a small town at the...

Rufus Harris signed up for Navy ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] because his dad anticipated the...

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