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When Dupuy got his wings, his sisters came down for the ceremony. After the ceremony he received a thirty day leave...

Mitchell Zimmer was born in Detroit but moved to Yugoslavia which was Austria-Hungary before World War 1. His mother...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

Gene Alair received some schooling at government expense back when he was married. He had been sent back to Harvard...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. took tests and examinations [Annotator's Note: for entry into aviation training in the United...

John "Jack" Raquepau got married about a week after George Bush [Annotator's Note: George H. W. Bush, 41st President of...

William Burkett was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] was not hard...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: Shown had become a crewman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in 1939] headed...

Louis R. Lepore joined the Marine Corps in September 1942 and retired in May 1971 after 29 years of service. Lepore...

After dropping his bomb, Sumner Whitten turned to get away from the Haruna's [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Navy...

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