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In January 1943, Frank M. Heuer Sr. enlisted in the Navy with his younger brother, Edward. Heuer, his brother, and...

Charles Womack remembers that the bunkers and emplacements were often different from one to the next. He came across...

Stanley Stewart said that, on the whole, he enjoyed his tour in the Pacific. He had been on Bougainville, Papua New...

Going into the Pacific took 19 days, zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver], in a three-ship...

After Orville Bethard was discharged he used his GI Bill benefits to take classes at Compton Junior College for a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks if Clarence Becker had received word that flights were not supposed to go out...

Gerald Kynett returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], where he was held up for some time....

Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

William Hall reached North Island and was assigned to one of two Marine Corps fighter units being organized. Fighter...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

Harold Long married his wife during his time in college while working on his master's in accounting. After the war, he...

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