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[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] In March 1949, Albert "Al" Machaud received...

Lester Hecht's wife [Annotator's Note: Lillian] did not mind moving back in with her parents, when Hecht went to war....

Monroe Scherer had lost a year of studies due to illness as a child. When he turned 18, he was still in high school. He...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

Wesley Carroll and his wife raised three children. Their first son, James Stephen, was born in 1948 and was adopted by...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Sterling Baker if he recalls a wide variety of ships being hit. He does not]....

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez's unit [Annotator's Note: 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division] was given a new...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman [Annotator's Note: a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Marine Scout-Bomber...

Arthur Pendleton participated in a lot of covert operations. It was interesting work. Pendleton did not know the...

John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...

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