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Fred Bronfin was had mixed feelings about leaving the Navy. In the service everything was taken care of for him. In the...

Richard Miralles was bombing the Philippines. A pilot had dropped two bombs into his bomb bay. The bombs blew up and...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Cole (DD-155). The Cole left Norfolk for North Africa to land Rangers ashore in...

Otis Kight was participating in flight operations when the Japanese attacked Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

They went directly into Ormoc Bay [Annotator's Note: Philippines]. Once the troops landed the kamikazes started to...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...

John Nicholas went into the service in September 1943. His half brother George was already in the Navy. Nicholas went...

After returning to his carrier, Norman Kleiss got a cup of coffee and prepared for his next flight. About that time a...

On VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Earl Wergin [Annotator's Note: with the USS...

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