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All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer was born in Savannah, Georgia in March 1918...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

Windom Joseph Burton went into Navy boot camp in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia] and was then sent for...

James “Jim” R. Boyd separated from service with the rank of lieutenant in 1946. He immediately took advantage of the G....

During the Battle of Surigao Strait, Mark Brannon said the USS Hutchins (DD-746) had spent almost all of its ammunition...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] headed to the Philippines,...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Robert Templet was aboard the USS Roxanne (AKA-37) when the Japanese surrendered. During the course of the war, the...

Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...

John "Jack" Raquepau does not know if he got the same bunk that was used by the pilot he replaced [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds can be heard chirping in the background throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was assigned to...

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