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Clarence Robert Duff remarked on the times when they interacted with Japanese pilots. Duff remembered they came across...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] At the end of World War 2, Hall...

Kenneth Theis reached Pearl Harbor and discovered that he was to be the Supply and Disbursement Officer on the USS...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

On 5 July [Annotator's Note: 5 July 1945], after refuel and refit in Perth [Annotator's Note: Perth, Australia], John...

The only thing Phineas Stevens remembers about Corregidor [Annotator's Note: Corregidor Island, Luzon, Philippines] is...

William Roy remembers the fighter planes beginning to malfunction after being at sea for so long. A lot of planes'...

After the war, Robert S. Gibbs told his boss he was getting married, and he asked for a raise. His pay went up to 200...

Having moored in the harbor at Nagasaki, Japan, Lauren Bruner and some shipmates [Annotator's Note: from the USS...

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