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Ferrier got to Pearl Harbor the day after the Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet CV-8, aircraft carrier] sailed. They...

Chester Biernacki remembers his shipmates on the Helena [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)]. He has never suffered...

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

David Lansou served in World War 2 in the signal company, headquarters battalion, 5th Marine Division. He was born in...

Frederick Haack was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York in 1920] and grew up in Wyoming where...

Charles Taylor's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was able to take out a German submarine. He saw...

Walter McNeely was born in St. Paul, Minnesota [Annotator’s Note: in April 1927]. During the Great Depression [...

Wesley Fronk was born in August 1922 in Jardine, Montana. His father was a homesteader. He grew up on the homestead. He...

Oliver Brewster was born in 1926 in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. He had three sisters. His father was a sharecropper, and...

Charles T. Edwards and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 66 (VC-66)] were sent to Southern California...

Jack Davis went to his military training at Camp Pickett [Annotator's Note: now Fort Pickett, near Blackstone, Virginia...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

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