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When the 12 ships in his squadron hit Diamondhead [Annotator's Note: the volcanic crater on Oahu, Hawaii], 6 went south...

Jump school training was intense for Jacques Brewster Smith. He did a lot of running and swinging exercise. He was...

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

Howard Cain’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he flew over Hiroshima [Annotator’s Note: Hiroshima,...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

Harold Joslin was an intercept operator [Annotator's Note: communication code specialist who interpreted enemy coded...

Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...

Edgar Harrell had very little energy and was just hoping for someone to discover him [Annotator's Note: while floating...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] was stationed at...

[Annotator's Note: There is loud background noise throughout this clip.] Willie Roy Hebert, hates his first name of...

Jack Werner felt that he was at home when he came to the United States. It seemed that this is where he belonged. It...

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