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William Cart and some other men who worked on the carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10), on display at...

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

The USS New Orleans [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS New Orleans, CA32] was a sister ship to the San...

Louis J. Armentaro was drafted even though he wanted to go prove himself. They told him he was underweight and would...

The B-29s carrying the second atomic bomb were overhead circling Yawata. The crew of the B-29 carrying the bomb was...

In October of 1945 United States forces came to occupy Matsuyama [Annotator's Note: Matsuyama, Japan] and had a formal...

James Morehead was born in August 1916 in Peoli, Oklahoma, the youngest of four children in a family that worked a farm...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] During his service in the...

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