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Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

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

Bruce McCormick was in the military for a long time. A lot of his friends who were soldiers in Korea [Annotator's Note...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs partially understood what Operation Crossroads [Annotator's Note: a pair of nuclear weapons tests...

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

Roy Boreen spent a year and a half as part of the USS Oklahoma's (BB-37) 3rd Division Deck Force. Every Friday was...

Fred L. Keller, Jr. thought Captain Joseph J. "Jocko" Clark [Annotator's Note: later US Navy Admiral Joseph J. "Jocko"...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

Bill Norberg boarded USS Enterprise (CV-6) and was amazed by the ship. He could never find the swimming pool. He was a...

James Warren David was born in Youngsville, Louisiana in January 1926. During the Great Depression, his father and...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

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