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They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

Robert Rosendahl's squadron [Annotator's Note: 3rd Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group] was stationed at a gunnery...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Walter Bank used the G.I. Bill for graduate school at WPI [Annotator's Note: Worcester Polytechnic Institute in...

Harold “Hal” Leith was born in June 1919 in Butte, Montana. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

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