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Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...

Harold Rosen took part in a simulation that was supposed to help them get ready for their next invasion. He recalls...

Gatewood was born in Decatur, Nebraska in 1921. He lived there until he went into the service. He was in his first...

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...

Merrill was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga, CV-3] both times she was torpedoed.When they left...

At Santa Cruz Feightner and Wickendoll [Annotator's Note: Lt(jg) Maurice Wickendoll] were flying CAP [Annotator's Note...

Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the...

Giles Bacon remembers that the Japanese aircraft were close enough to shoot at, which he did. He had no idea if he hit...

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

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

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

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