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Ralph Weymouth graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1938. He was 12 years and old living in northwest Seattle in 1929...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Alfred Dearman had never seen a tv [Annotator's Note: television] and kept reading about them. Another of his buddy and...

The captain [Annotator's Note: Captain Albert Finley France, Jr.] told Tarrant that the Navy was going to be different...

John DuBose heard little current war news while onboard the SS Frenchtown. They did learn shortly after the end of the...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

Henry Bourgeois was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He first flew when he was about seven years old. After...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roy Boreen was stationed at the Section Base until 1943. After that, he was sent to...

Peter Hebert’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was wanting to join the Navy and the patriotism of the country...

Thatcher watched and was actually in a few of the B-25's that were practicing taking off from a short runway. It gave...

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