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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...

Paul Harless was born in Corryton, Tennessee in December 1921. His father worked in various jobs during the Great...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was guarding the Florida Keys as a member of the 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

After the war, Clyde Barber remained in the Navy as a member of a naval transport squadron, VR-8 (Air Transport...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

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

Floyd James Reissig was hit by shrapnel from one of his own guns. While they were firing, the shrapnel hit him, causing...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Connelly if any memories stand out in particular for him.] They ate C...

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

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