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Jack Linscott was born in December 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had two sisters and one brother. He was 16 years...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

The F6F Hellcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft] was very tough [Annotator's Note: when...

Norman Kleiss knew Peter Gaido pretty well. When Kleiss was about to take off for his first carrier landing he was...

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

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Louis Conter arrived in San Francisco after his voyage from Hawaii. He took a train trip to Pensacola, Florida during...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

Harvey Mittleman's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the heavy combat during the first few days on Okinawa [...

The Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)] had torpedo problems on most of her runs. Billy Grieves kept an...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

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