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Sidney Philips remembers explosions everywhere. Small arms fire everywhere. The total concern was for yourself. It is...

[Annotators note: Interview starts off in mid conversation about the format of the interview.] Richard Greer was born...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

[Annotators Note: Charles Bishop served in the navy aboard the destroyer USS Cummings (DD-365) then later aboard the...

Earnest did get his eight landings in. The next time he was going to be making a landing he was on the Saratoga [...

Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

John Luckadoo does not believe that long range fighter protection was possible in the early stages of the war. They...

Fred Hirsekorn was born in Schonlanke, Germany in May 1924. There were about five generations of Hirsekorns who were...

Walter Nelson loved the airplane he flew in [Annotators Note: TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bombers]. It was slow but...

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