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Pierce, Jack Working as a Navy electrician
Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...
Barrick, Calvin Richard O'Kane
Calvin Barrick thinks that Dick O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard H. O'Kane was the commanding...
Hammer, Richard USS Tippecanoe
Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...
Masters, Robert Navy Experience and War's End
Robert Masters's ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-601] came under air raids on several occasions while in port in Tunis...
Caraway, John War's End, Hitting a Mine and Back to Civilian Life
John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...
Bethard, Orville Navy Training and Commissioning USS Midway (CVE-63)
When Orville Bethard graduated from high school he was 19 years old and eligible for the draft. He did not like the...
Kesselman, Emil Growing up in New York
Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 10
The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...
Buell, Harold "Hal" First Combat
Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...
Showers, Donald "Mac" Segment 2
Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...
Roy, William Carrier Raids on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands
[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...
Beyer, Walter Last Patrols of the War
[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...

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