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William Roy remembers the fighter planes beginning to malfunction after being at sea for so long. A lot of planes'...

Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

Eventually, Bougainville was taken [Annotator's Note: Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at...

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts mid-conversation. Jacklyn Lucas is saying that he had skin taken from his butt and...

Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, New Guinea. He was rescued and...

Besides the attack from the Japanese scout, Carroll Harris did not have any other combat experiences with the Japanese...

Thomas Francis Schicker went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] and did maneuvers offshore...

Clint Quirk thought the most enjoyable experience was coming into port and getting drunk. Then getting back on the ship...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Ben Kuroki’s B-24 outfit was called to North Africa to help out with the British forces who were going against Rommel....

Jack Yusen grew up in Queens, New York where he lived with his parents, brother and grandmother and was living there...

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