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Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Harold Bergbower completed high school then entered the service at age 19. He was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Baptiste feels that it is important for there to be a National World War II Museum. If they hadn't done what they did...

Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...

Merrill was returning from a search mission just as the Doolittle Raiders were taking off from the Hornet [Annotator's...

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