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Cecil Ezell McLain was born in November 1921 in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up through the Great Depression in Robertsdale...

Robert Savage was assigned as the radio man on the USS Springfield (CL-66), which received orders to escort a heavy...

John Nicholas first experienced an aerial attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)] a few months...

[Annotator's Note: Dr. Robert Beynon was serving aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) when it survived an attack by a...

In 1954, John Kreutzberg was drafted once more, this time into the Army. He was married at the time, so his wife went...

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

It was like a dream, sometimes John Snyder does not know if it [Annotator's Note: the war] happened or not. He tells it...

During the 13 months that Richard McEwen was in combat, he described the Japanese activity where he was as a "backup...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

About a month before the Battle of Midway the skipper decided to assign crews. The chief radioman asked if anyone had a...

Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a 1st class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion] was stationed...

Eugene Corson was born in March 1922 in Stanford, Connecticut. In 1936, his father got a job working on submarines in...

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