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Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

They were on General's Quarters [Annotator's Note: ready for battle] for 72 hours. The guys would take turns on their...

Meda Royce Hall was a Ground School Gunnery Instructor at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida when America went...

Marvin Tyson went to college under the G.I. Bill at New York University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York]. He...

Walter Broll sailed north of Iceland on his first convoy. The ship zig-zagged over the course of the voyage. He did...

Bill Norberg boarded USS Enterprise (CV-6) and was amazed by the ship. He could never find the swimming pool. He was a...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior volunteered for quartermaster school in the Navy. He was advised to sail on as...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

It took Blanchard quite a while to get topside. There was a lot of smoke. The men had to move to get away from it all....

The battle on Tarawa provided countless opportunities for combat cameramen like Norman Hatch to capture story telling...

The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...

Leon Griffith had a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun] on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte...

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