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Donald Witmer was on the USS Twiggs (DD-591) for its shakedown cruise to Bermuda. It was Christmas of 1943, and Witmer...

Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...

When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

James Melvin Crane was born in Conehatta, Mississippi in Newton County. At 15 pounds, he was the largest baby boy in...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

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

Barbara Pathe was born in Bethel, Ohio. She lived there until she was eight years old. She had an older brother, an...

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

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