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The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Philip Curran was born in May 1927 on Orrs Island, Maine. He had two brothers and one sister. His father was a mate on...

Claude Taylor married his wife after graduating LSU [Annotator's Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,...

Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe. He trained in a small...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines aboard the USS Butte (APA-68)]...

Wallace Edward Spencer, originally Wallace Smigirow, was born in Woodside, New York in October 1925. He has one older...

Paul J. Murphy got into the water which was covered with oil and black tar [Annotator’s Note: he had just abandoned the...

After a trip to Guantanamo Bay [Annotator's Note: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] and back in the newly commissioned USS Hutchins...

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

Noah Lewis could not believe how many people were killed by the atomic bomb. He was shown a before and after picture of...

Ari Phoutrides's only thought of that day [Annotator's Note: a kamikaze attack on 15 to 16 April 1945] was that it was...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee pauses and speaks slowly throughout this clip.] William Ward Crawford returned to...

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