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

Earnest then had to make a decision, he was already a 2nd lieutenant in the Army but he was not sure if he wanted to be...

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

Barney Old Coyote was born in April 1923. He spoke the Crow language growing up. Old Coyote was raised by his...

Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...

Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...

Edward Tipper was a member of a military group that received a tremendous amount of recognition. He was 18 or 19 when...

Olen Grant was born in Benton, Arkansas on 5 April 1923. After his father returned from World War I, he moved to Benton...

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Brooks was born on 30 October of 1919 in Greeneville, Tennessee. He recalls his childhood during the Great Depression....

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