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The Grumman Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft] was a beautiful aircraft, according to...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson entered the Navy in May 1945 at the age of 17 and did basic training at Great Lakes Naval...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees were very leery of their Japanese captors. They were not all bad...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Cleatus Lebow was kept in the hospital ward for four weeks, then flew from Samar Island [Annotator's Note: Samar Island...

Forrest Villarrubia was in combat with General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur] on Leyte...

George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

During his time in the Samar Islands, the Philippines, William Schrader [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 23rd...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

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