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William Roy [Annotator's Note: as a member of the salvage crew on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 6 June 1942] witnessed the...

Jacques Brewster Smith remembers the island of Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] being all jungle and...

Edgar Marion Cole was born in Dallas, Texas in 1925. His parents were poor and he had to help the family financially...

Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

After the war ended, Dr. Robert Beynon and the USS Bowfin (SS-287) went to Long Island [Annotator's Note: Long Island,...

The most significant thing to occur during the Battle of Midway that allowed for American victory is up for debate....

Lionel Lopez did not lose any POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. They got paid for their work on the...

Sumner Whitten would rent his car out for five dollars per night. Whitten took his graduation leave in New England then...

In July 1945, Peter Hebert enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and was sent to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego,...

James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...

Alfred Taddeo was with the squadron that became the Blue Angels [Annotator's Note: United States Navy Blue Angels...

Fred Wesighan enlisted in the Army after he graduated in high school because he "did not like people kicking around our...

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