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The navy commander leading the Hornet's [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet, CV-8] air group was responsible for the deaths...

Walter Bowsher was at Pusan and then Inchon during the Korean War. He was told to report to a warrant officer for duty...

Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]...

Richard O'Hara was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1925 and lived there until he was about 15. He considers...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Following the end of the war, Harold Joslin remained in Japan briefly. The former captives were brought to a landing...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was born in Sumner, Mississippi in July 1924. He lived in a rural community with lots of...

When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

William Cart switched from SB2Cs [Annotator's Note: Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, or Curtiss A-25 Shrike, dive bomber] to...

Ben Steele was told the war was over by a Japanese officer. At first, the Americans did not believe him, but American B...

Morton William Werner’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was on his way to Japan, but then was sent...

Rufus Harris does not recall celebrating the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

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