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About a month before the Battle of Midway the skipper decided to assign crews. The chief radioman asked if anyone had a...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Richard Keller was at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he was asked to be...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

Wallace Spencer is honored that he was able to serve. He did his job and it was an honor to do it. His hat helped him...

Dave Severance thought they would be sent home once they took the mountain [Annotator's Note: Mount Suribachi on Iwo...

While at Finschhafen [Annotator's Note: Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea], people were needed to watch the docks. Robert J...

Howard Hart found out that there was a secret radio in the camp. An engineer had put it together using scavenged parts...

[Annotators Note: Norman Kleiss starts the interview by reading a narrative about the causes that led up to the Pearl...

John H. Cole was on his way to Japan for the invasion when the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

On the day after V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], John Wicklund and a friend went to...

Jacob Velfling, Jr.'s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was at a farm behind enemy lines. He met two...

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