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James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

Arthur Q. Davis was born in March 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family lived on a rice plantation in Pointe a la...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Alfred Taddeo is from Portland, Oregon. While there with a group of classmates at the University of Portland Oregon [...

Jack Leaming and the USS Enterprise (CV-6)'s Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) received SBDs [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Lewis M. Lee, Sr.'s most memorable experience of the war was Pearl Harbor, and he remarks that we didn't have a...

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