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Charles Graves Chauncey did very few daylight missions and during those missions he would fly low. Most of his daylight...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

Chuck recalls being stripped naked with his hands locked behind his head. The Japanese would hit them with a giant...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus left [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Merchant Marine ship. Once they were...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Lloyd Dendy returned to his family in Anse La Butte [Annotator's Note: Anse La Butte, Louisiana]. There is a salt mine...

Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

Peter Newberg did not have much choice in abandoning ship [Annotator's Note: after the USS Yorktown (CV-5) was mortally...

William Stewart was set to get discharged. He was considered surplus and could get out six months early. They fought...

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