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Harold Buell flew both the Douglas SBD Dauntless and the Curtis SB2C Helldiver dive bombers. There were positive and...

Virginia Wilterdink's most memorable experience of the war was hearing the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Charles Kneflin had never seen anything like the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]....

Robert Marich first entered the service in February 1941. In April 1941, at Camp Mackall, North Carolina [Annotator's...

Sterling Cale was on night duty at the shipyard dispensary in the Navy yard before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had...

Carey Suratt worked on the hospital ship about three weeks and was then transferred to the LST-452 [Annotator's Note:...

John Gehrett was born in July 1921 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where grew up and was educated. The family home was on...

While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...

Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

After Parris Island, William Pierce went to Hingham, Massachusetts which housed a huge naval ammunition manufacturing...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

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