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Robert Dannehl had further trained in Portland, Maine where he became an operator of a high frequency direction finder...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...

Harold Buell was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga (CV-3)] when she arrived at Midway following the...

John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...

Robert Dannehl was a radio operator [Annotator’s Note: on the USS Hubbard (DE-211)]. He got liberty [Annotator's Note:...

William Beaman was born in October 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, the only boy of three children. His father died when he was...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

James Gaffney’s assessment of the John Wayne World War II movie entitled "They Were Expendable" was that it was mostly...

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...

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