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Ralph Weymouth graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1938. He was 12 years and old living in northwest Seattle in 1929...

[Annotator's Note: You can hear someone off camera throughout this segment.] David Lansou believes that the way...

Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

Otis Kight and others volunteered for the salvage party to return to Yorktown [Annotator's Note: the USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Joe Clapper was in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] arrived at...

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts mid-conversation. Jacklyn Lucas is saying that he had skin taken from his butt and...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

Theodore Marolda has had to pay out of his own pocket for medical expenses because veteran benefits would take too long...

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