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Vejtasa could see the Lexington on fire but still recovering planes. The Yorktown was also burning but recovering...

When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

Robert L. Donovan did not want to be in the infantry. He was working at the Goodrich Company when he learned that the...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

Salvador Perino was sent to Memphis, Tennessee to fly Stearmans [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Kaydet or...

James McEnery was sent to a naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. While he was in Norfolk a national state of emergency was...

Edward Bruce Jennings never saw so many planes bombing a place. The naval bombardment was terrible as well. They could...

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

Hanna wanted to return to the US through San Francisco but ended up coming in through Seattle.He was sent to Madigan...

Jack Leaming and his SBD pilot had just completed their bombing run on Marcus Island when the antiaircraft fire became...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the Military Police Company, Headquarters Battalion, 5th...

Lionel Lopez was shot in the back and it came out of his chest. He was taken to a field hospital. The doctor stitched...

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