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Walter Bud Gafford feels many young people do not know about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

All the time Alfred Dearman was in the Air Force, he was training jet pilots. All the jet pilots had to learn how to...

After Norman Elliott was discharged from the Navy, he did not go back to school. He joined the 52-20 club [Annotator's...

In 1940, Randall Edwards boarded the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9) in Tsingtao, China. The Canopus was a "mother...

When the ship he returned home aboard was approaching San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], James...

Jack Thornhill was born in Alexandria [Annotator's Note: Alexandria, Louisiana] in 1926. In 1932 the family moved to...

John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...

When Richard Cole returned to the United States he was stationed at an aircraft manufacturing plant. As the planes...

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands] was a morale...

Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

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