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Melvin Abadie spent two weeks in Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the USS Appalachian (AGC-1). He was not connected to...

Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

Harry W. Lockhead was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1925. He grew up in Chatham where his step-father had a butcher...

Donelson Houseman was born in Dallas, Texas in 1923 and grew up there. After graduating high school, he began classes...

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

Katherine Croft was born in 1939 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Her father worked there briefly as an architect, and then...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

[Annotator's Note: Interview begins mid-discussion with brief mention of the Malmedy Massacre, the massacre of 84...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Henry A. Tacket remembered harsh storms in Alaskan waters and a plane crash in Florida as his most memorable...

When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

Margaret Stephensen was born in March 1923 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She grew up there and played in the band. After...

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