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Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

Thomas Kingsley's departure for military training was an emotional family event. He had volunteered for the Army...

Olin Tisdale's newly launched ship was meant to take a Seabee unit to Iwo Jima to refurbish landing strips. However,...

Philip Dunford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in July 1925. He lived in Chester, Virginia when he was five...

Rollins Rosenzweig departed California aboard the carrier [Annotator's Note: Rosenzweig was a radioman and gunner on a...

Erwin Johnson was an aircraft mechanic [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 48th Material Squadron, 27th Bombardment...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

Harold Bergbower completed high school then entered the service at age 19. He was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was...

Francis J. Cook was born in August 1924 and grew up in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. His father was a barber and Cook...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Dominick Sgobbo was born in October 1924 in East Harlem, New York City, New York. The fifth of eight children of...

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