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Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

Robert Addison was born in Akron, Ohio in December 1922. Growing up he was very athletic and played many different...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy as an Electricians Mate aboard the submarine USS Sea Dragon.]...

After the invasion they left Southern France [Annotator's Note: Perrett means Northern France, in June 1944] and...

The Yorktown [Annotators Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] ended up getting the worst of it in the form of aerial and...

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

Captain Murray [Annotators Note: Captain Stuart S. Murray] was the captain on the USS Missouri. Starnes and Murray got...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotators Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...

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