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Bruno S. Rinas was able to complete the work he was given because he was being fed. He never saw the Japanese shoot...

Fred Gemmel's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)] was assisted into a port after sustaining damage [...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Jimmie Dyer enlisted to fight in World War 2 because he thought that the country needed to fight. He never questioned...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

[Annotator's Note: Sumner Whitten served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator dive bomber with Marine...

Fred Bergeron saw three carriers as well as battle ships, cruisers and destroyers spread out over a very wide area. The...

Charles Watkins Adair was born in Dora, Alabama in 1923. His family moved a lot during the Great Depression [Annotator'...

[Annotator’s Note: the interview start is preceded by a brief discussion by Donald Herbert Shown of his five years...

In early 1945, after completing missions in the Philippines, Richard R. Ruess' squadron [Annotator's Note: 4th...

Sherwin Lansing Eddy and his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Composite Squadron 94 (VC-94) flying from USS Shamrock Bay (...

Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...

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