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Hopkins was aboard the Hornet when they were under attack. It was quite an attack. The first few bombs knocked out the...

Hugh Wingo attended boot camp for eight weeks. They got their first liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

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

The officers would "talk a lot about things," Donald Campbell says, it was a furious campaign [Annotator's Note: the...

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

After Lawrence Winnier left the Argonne [Annotator's Note: USS Argonne (AS-10)], he was sent to Schumacher, California...

James Warren David explains how the LCVPs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP] loaded up troops...

James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...

Robert Lents said that for a year and a half the prisoners did everything from building an underground radio station to...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

Donald Stratton is from Red Cloud, Nebraska. His family was farmers early on in their lives. Stratton had one sister...

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