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Wiley relates that at the time of the hit and run carrier raids, they had more aircrew than airplanes. Being a new...

In the spring of 1946, Hugh Ettinger was stationed at Rongerik Atoll [Annotator’s Note: Rongerik Atoll, Marshall...

Lester Caplan was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the son of a traveling salesman, he felt his childhood was "...

James Billingsley was treated well as a replacement. In combat troops, it is a different thing altogether. He never...

William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...

Archie Kelley arrived at Annapolis [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] and had to...

William O’Brien remembers that they ate well on the battleship. They had a small refrigerator. They checked all the...

Richard Welch joined the Navy in November 1944 and was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training [Annotator's Note: Naval...

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

Charles Wesley Borders retired from the United States Air Force on 1 September 1971. He got to be a Wing Commander...

Being Captured

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

Oral History