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That night, Carroll Harris experienced a Japanese surprise attack. Guards were put in place where Sergeant Allan was...

Vernon Micheel flew his first combat mission off the Hornet [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Bombing Squadron 2 (VB-2...

[Annotator's Note: Sumner Whitten served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator dive bomber with Marine...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

Sam L. Miller was born in September 1926 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was an only child because his mother could...

Alexander Vraciu and the other members of his squadron [Annotators Note: Fighting Squadron 16 (VF 16)] were in their...

William Cart was sent down to Gillespie [Annotator's Note: Gillespie Field, El Cajon, California], an outlying field...

When he returned to Singapore, Wim de Jonge ended up in the same prison where he had previously been held. [Annotator’s...

Keith Kiefer was taught about World War 2 in school. The Russians were framed as a stand-offish ally. There was not a...

After Willie D. Knippers spent a year in Hawaii, he was shipped to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] where...

After the war, Robert L. Rorschach stayed on his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] until a replacement...

Nevin Sledge was assigned to be an instructor after graduation. [Annotator’s Note: Sledge graduated in Corpus Christi,...

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