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Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

Merrill was returning from a search mission just as the Doolittle Raiders were taking off from the Hornet [Annotator's...

John Nicholas was a Seaman 2nd Class deck hand when he went aboard the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)]....

Cecil Ezell McLain stopped in Singapore before heading home and witnessed five people die and several people blinded by...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment. Video begins Andrew Petrus of Company G, 2nd...

Jake Ussery and the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] were ordered back to San Diego. That was his base...

Frederick Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He grew up in the fields. His father was a college...

William S. “Bill” Beamish’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his fiancée came to the railroad station...

Yukio Kawamoto's parents did not have to divulge too much about how their time in the camp went. Kawamoto had gotten a...

Once in the Navy, Arthur Fishman did not receive much training. He was taught how to read his gauges. On his way back...

Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

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