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Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

Another frightening experience Gravois had was during the Battle of the Matanikau River. For the battle they [Annotator...

Jack Skaggs surrendered on Wilkes Island. Meanwhile, there were about 1,200 civilians on Wake Island. Commander...

Thomas E. Warne was born in August 1930 on the dining room table of his parents' home on the Del Monte Plantation in...

On the battleship, J. W. Childs said, it was mandatory for a sailor to wear his white hat if he went outside of his...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson was born in April 1925 in Taft...

Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...

Samuel Ukrop experienced a lot of intense training for Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed...

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