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Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

Robert Oplinger remembers receiving the first Japanese sword of surrender on the home islands as being his most...

Edward E. Boyles remarked that about 90 percent of the Japanese soldiers would rather die than bring embarrassment to...

Eugene Henry Gierka was born in August 1924 in Albany, New York. His parents came from Poland. His father ran a butcher...

Merlin Smith left Oakland on a shakedown cruise on his new ship [Annotator's Note: USS Goshen (APA-108)]. Afterward,...

Lorraine Doroff was born in December 1918 on a family farm near Long Prairie, Minnesota in a log cabin. She liked...

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

Before he got married, Donald Popham tried to enlist, but failed the physical because of his eyesight. His rating was...

Donald A. Lindquist was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1924 and lived there until Hurricane Katrina in...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

Leonard Brooks got up to go to school on Monday [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941] morning and that is when he and his...

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