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In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] Albert Machaud's most memorable experience of...

Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...

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

Thomas Crosby remembered soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they attacked the Philippines. Using...

Lloyd Guillory flew aboard an LB-30 [Annotator's Note: the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator cargo aircraft was a variant of...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

Wendell Woodall was in the 19th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 19th Bombardment Group] which initially took off from...

Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

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

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

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