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One of Karr's uncles was an original member of the American Legion when it was founded in Paris in World War I. Another...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Giles Bacon has seen some of the movies made about Pearl Harbor in recent years. He thinks the most accurate is Tora!...

Robert D. Shaner had some exciting times aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-475]. They had gotten back from...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

They [Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher and his rear seat gunner George Fergusson] were taken to a sick bay in the bow [...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

Edgar Cole went to communications school and finished at the head of his class. He was automatically assigned to...

Quintana had to board an Australian ship that left from American Samoa. On Tulagi, the landing was rougher than...

Robert Powers never saw his comrade who was captured again. He knew that if he were captured he would be killed. If...

Samuel Ukrop was flown to an Army hospital on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]. He was the only Marine in...

Norman Hatch was asleep at his place in New York on the morning of 7 December 1941. He had preset his radio to turn on...

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