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[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...

After the landings at Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea], Mark Brannon...

In Combat Intelligence school they learned to analyze and creep up on Japanese emplacements, the types of troops, type...

Hersey Goodwin was in high school, and they talked current events in the mornings. They knew about it [Annotator's Note...

William Barnes manned a 20 millimeter antiaircraft gun aboard USS PC-590. When an enemy plane came at the ship it...

Frederick Ellis was born in Amite, Louisiana in October 1924. His father's business failed in the Great Depression and...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They went to New...

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox chose the Marine Corps rather than another branch because it was the Japs [Annotator's...

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

Harold DeForest fought in World War 2 because he loves this country and felt that it was worth fighting for. His...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

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