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Dossie East's most memorable experience was picking up a Japanese pilot just outside the harbor after the attack [...

William O’Brien was on duty in the Philippines. They kept their equipment ready. The ammunition was ready to go on the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

James Goodrich was taken from Iwo Jima to a hospital on Guam. He was on Guam for about 12 or 13 days before being...

Walter Imahara was four years old when he went into the camp. They were first sent to an assembly center in Fresno...

Louis Black took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

John Vessey and his unit headed to Fort Dix to prepare to go overseas. They were supposed to go on a French ship but it...

The USS New Orleans [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS New Orleans, CA32] was a sister ship to the San...

Samuel Lombardo joined the National Guard on 11 November 1939. He had a friend in the Guard who coaxed him into doing...

Sterling Cale was born in Macomb, Illinois in 1921. Shortly after birth, he went into an orphanage for four years....

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

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