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Norman Kleiss knew Peter Gaido pretty well. When Kleiss was about to take off for his first carrier landing he was...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

While working on a road, Ben Steele would see men covered with mosquitos. They did not have mosquito nets to sleep with...

On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

John Burr remembers they went into the Sea of Japan as a group of nine submarines. They were surprised to see the...

The fact that John McGlohon is one of the living eye witnesses to the first atomic explosion, and that he was on site...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] The invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's Note...

Jack Dye was born in Alamosa, Colorado. His family left when his three and his mother passed away. His father was...

Choosing to go in the Navy [Annotator's Note: in 1944] was natural for Philip Curran. He grew up on the water. His...

The Japanese commander of the camp, stood up on a platform and spoke in Japanese with an interpreter, and says, "The...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard was born in August 1925 in Ottawa, Kansas. He grew up there. He had three sisters and two...

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