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Otis Kight's squadron, VF-42 [Annotator's Note: Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42), USS Yorktown (CV-5)] had the bulk of the...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee pauses and speaks slowly throughout this segment.] William Ward Crawford arrived at...

Fred Bergeron was 19 years old when he took part in the Battle of Midway. He did not really have any idea just how...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...

The discipline in the Marine Corps helped to make Deens life successful. He is glad that he went through it and the...

Between his first and second patrols Robert Dickinson was on the island of Hawaii for rest and relaxation. A relief...

While off Okinawa, the USS Wisconsin [Annotator’s Note: USS Wisconsin BB-64] picked up some British POWs, which were...

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

The biggest problem on Rufus Harris' ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Miami (CL-89)] was a typhoon [Annotator's Note:...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

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