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Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

Arles E. Cole missed breakfast and woke a few minutes before eight o’clock in the morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a...

Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch OHare] really invented the Thatch Weave and Thatch's name was...

Fred Bergeron saw three carriers as well as battle ships, cruisers and destroyers spread out over a very wide area. The...

During one of his trips back to the United States Alex Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero that had been...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were anchored too far away from the surrender ceremony to be...

Returning to his memories of the prison camp, Robert Lents said it was about 25 July [Annotator's Note: 25 July 1945]...

Jack Leaming and his SBD pilot had just completed their bombing run on Marcus Island when the antiaircraft fire became...

Walter Amoss feels nostalgic when he visits the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans,...

Burl Loving was ordered to report to the 317 [Annotator’s Note: USS YMS-317 minesweeper] which was a 130-foot-long,...

Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet] did not receive...

Raymond Bailey was on the mess deck washing cups when he felt the first shudder caused by the bomb hit [Annotator's...

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