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Robert Knudson was born in January 1925 in Mason City, Iowa. His father was a successful greenhouse owner, and even...

Gabriel Spinelli began his active duty in March 1943. His basic training took place in Sacramento at a facility that...

Melvin Abadie spent two weeks in Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the USS Appalachian (AGC-1). He was not connected to...

The Yorktown [Annotators Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] ended up getting the worst of it in the form of aerial and...

Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...

Ferrier's airplane was taken back to Pearl Harbor after the battle. The engineers do all sorts of things to the plane,...

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

Gary Tate and his fellow troops had a recreation hall in Tinsukia, India. They spent quite a bit of time there. Hitler...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

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

Rudy Huval and his four brothers went into the service. Ivan was the oldest brother [Annotator’s Note: Ivan was killed...

Carl Light was born in a small town in southern Missouri and was inducted at Fort Leonard Wood [Annotator's Note: Fort...

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