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After Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] left Pearl Harbor for Midway she took on the Saratoga Air Group [...

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) were assigned to the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The...

James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...

Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...

Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

Russell Mayeur was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1927. His family had a tough time during the Depression...

Daniel J. Lennon was born in February 1925 in Vienna, Austria. His father was in graduate school for medicine. They...

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

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Warren Nolan went to Pearl Harbor aboard a Navy troop transport ship. It took about six days to get there. He was then...

Cleveland Peterson was aboard the SS Johnson when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They had been...

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