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During the Battle of Surigao Strait, Mark Brannon said the USS Hutchins (DD-746) had spent almost all of its ammunition...

Heywood Mason was born in August 1925 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: on Susina Plantation near Beachton, Georgia], where...

Donald Wilson reported to San Francisco for duty assignment at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS New Orleans (CA-32). The...

Clayton Hall was born in Harvey County on a farm near Newton [Annotator's Note: Newton, Kansas]. His father was in...

Joe Clapper remembers being on a date at a movie theater on Pearl Harbor Day. When he came out, newsboys were peddling...

Troy Edwards was an Aviation Metalsmith 2nd Class, an AM2c, while in the Navy. That rate in the Navy may no longer...

Austeen Bice was born in August 1923 in New Boston, Texas with five brothers and one sister. His father was a farmer...

After leaving Pearl Harbor, William Roy and the rest of the crew of the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Donald Dean Paynter was born in Madison, Wisconsin in August 1922. His brother was in World War 2 as well. His father...

Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...

Vincent DeSalvo was a barber in New Orleans and was at the hospital to visit a customer of his who had been in accident...

Walter Broll always had a haircut on Saturday. He would then go to confession since he was raised a Catholic. On one...

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