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While preparing the West Virginia [Annotator's Note: the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] to go into drydock, Archie Kelley...

Hopkins was aboard the Hornet when they were under attack. It was quite an attack. The first few bombs knocked out the...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

John Singlaub had a specific OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, pre-runner of the Central...

There was a radioman on Harper Gruber's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS YMS-339] who would pick up the world news and...

James L. Wheeler spoke to a high school class and there was a person of Japanese descent in it. He asked what Wheeler...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

Edward F. Kent would like to tell younger people to listen to what other people have to say. He believes that World War...

Robert Powers never saw his comrade who was captured again. He knew that if he were captured he would be killed. If...

Clifford Albert Hahn reached Dutch Harbor [Annotator's Note: Dutch Harbor, Alaska] on 11 May [Annotator's Note: 11 May...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

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