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Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

Meda Royce Hall attended Aviation Ordnance School in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia], and graduated in...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman ended...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Remi Kidder was sent to San Diego, California for his basic training. He was used to hard work and discipline so that...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

Jack Dye was still in the Navy when the war was over. They took their load of fuel to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

[Annotator’s Note: Video and sound is very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

Elsie Marie "Kitty" Rippin was born in Ellinger, Texas in January 1924. She moved around a lot with her family during...

Lawson T. Winslow, Junior's most memorable experience of World War 2 was hearing about the atomic bomb [Annotator's...

Socrates Dendrinelis was born in St. Louis, Missouri in March 1926. He grew up there with three brothers and one sister...

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