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Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

Lepla took off with the strike group on the morning of the Battle of Santa Cruz [Annotator's Note: 26 October 1942]....

Ettlinger ended up going to high school for 4 years and when he graduated, he and every other fellow male student...

Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

Bell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15th, 1918. Before the war, Bell had a business manufacturing...

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

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

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

Most of the tests had to do with navigation. They got off of the ship in Pearl Harbor. Eventually Earnest was told that...

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

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

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

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