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[Annotator's Note: David Cawley is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. Cawley joined the Navy...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Being Captured

Melvin Munch corresponded with his future wife back home while he was on Okinawa. The letters had to be reviewed by...

Hershel Hibbard was born in Rose Hill, Kansas in September 1925. His mother worked as a switchboard operator and his...

Edward Chinnis and his fellow sailors hated the Japanese even after the war ended. Chinnis was on occupation duty for...

James Ramage was not pleased with the results [Annotator's Note: the results of the US Navy's attack on the Japanese...

After joining the Navy, David Eugene Turnbull was sent to Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator’s Note: Chicago,...

Stewart Bass flew a TBM Avenger [Annotator's Note: Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber] during the Second World War. He...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

Oral History