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Rufus Harris signed up for Navy ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] because his dad anticipated the...

Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

While off Okinawa, the USS Wisconsin [Annotator’s Note: USS Wisconsin BB-64] picked up some British POWs, which were...

Alexander Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi...

In 1987, Julian Trist Bringier McConnell retired from his job and was given golf clubs. After retiring, he ran for a...

Gerald Kynett could run 20 to 25 word a minute using signal. After stopping at Enewetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetok...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

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