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During the battle Commander Becton [Annotator's Note: Admiral F. Julian Becton] was very calm. He gave orders to the...

Fred L. Keller Jr. was born Algiers, Louisiana in January 1924. After he graduated high school, he got a job working at...

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

When the Japanese General Homma [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Army Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma] brought...

Richard Miralles accepted everything that came to him because he knew he could not change it. They did not talk about...

After Okinawa, John Nicholas and the USS Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)] were sent to sweep for mines in...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum hated the Japanese during the war. They made sneak attacks with no warning. It was a blessing to...

Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...

Alex Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer] out over the Japanese...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Sam L. Miller was born in September 1926 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was an only child because his mother could...

Paul Lawrence was at the Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] commencement speech...

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