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

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

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

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

Norman Ikari was born in Seattle, Washington on 17 February 1919. His parents were Japanese immigrants. Life was not...

Leisey was born in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania May 10th, 1923. He moved to Honey Brook, Pennsylvania where he ended up...

Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...

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

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

Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...

John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...

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