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Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

During one of his first combat missions, one of the gunners on David Lehigh's plane panicked. He found out a few...

James Gaffney reveals how the PT Boat reacted to rough seas. Included is an explanation of how the bilge pumping system...

George A. Damiano graduated from high school shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Robert L. Donovan did not want to be in the infantry. He was working at the Goodrich Company when he learned that the...

Rivers Richardson King thought the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] dive bomber was very...

Nicanor Guzman was born in the Philippines in March 1918. He got his two year basic course in the Army. He also studied...

The next morning, 5 June [Annotator's Note: 5 June 1942], Fred Bergeron had breakfast then went to his plane. When they...

Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...

James Francis McCorriston was happy to be aboard a fighting ship like the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). The first place...

Alex Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M...

In 1940, David Heath graduated high school and went to work on a farm. Later that year, he joined the Marines [...

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