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Frederick Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He grew up in the fields. His father was a college...

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

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Pastor Dale Peterson was born in Warren, Minnesota in February 1926. He grew up in the Great Depression. His life was...

When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Moise S. Steeg, Jr. what basic training was like.] Moise S. Steeg, Jr....

Lewis M. Lee, Sr.'s most memorable experience of the war was Pearl Harbor, and he remarks that we didn't have a...

Perry Strait received no benefits from his service in the Merchant Marines or the Maritime Service. It was difficult to...

Masaji Inoshita was born in central California. At an early age he moved down to the Santa Barbara area. His father had...

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

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

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