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Donald Stratton recalls that none of the men were sleeping [Annotator's Note: when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Pete Brock was discharged from the Navy in Seattle, Washington in June 1946 with the rating of signalman third class....

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. and the interviewer informally chat for a few minutes prior to the start...

James Salerno believes that World War 2 made him a better person. It made him feel lucky to be alive. He feels like it...

George Colburn called for a stretcher. One of the ones who brought the stretcher got hit. They put his friend,...

Donald Draxler was born in Glenwood City, Wisconsin in July 1923. His home town was near the "Twin Cities" [Annotator’s...

Floyd James Reissig arrived at the Harry Lee [Annotator's Note: USS Harry Lee (APA-10)] a week and a half before he...

Vernon Micheel flew his first combat mission off the Hornet [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Bombing Squadron 2 (VB-2...

On occasion, Charles Nathan Lane would be under fire from Japanese snipers. One Japanese sniper fired at a soldier...

Dupuy was rotated out after his escort missions on Truk. There was no system of rotation for pilots in the Pacific like...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

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