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Lee R. Broussard was born in December 1925 in Loreauville, Louisiana. His father was a construction worker and then...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar De Pue Osgood shows a picture of the USS Iowa (BB-61) that he took through a porthole.] That...

Daniel Chester was born in February 1925 in Lakewood, Ohio, went through grammar and high school there, and lived in a...

C. Charles Collie received a commission as an ensign in the Navy and assignment to a ship [Annotator's Note: the...

Donald Witmer was born an only child in September 1924 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His mother died when he was 18...

Calvin B. Moore was born in December 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was...

Robert Marovelli clearly remembers being in the bathtub on 7 December 1941, when the announcement came over the radio...

Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

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

Carl Landwehr was born in 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never had a lot of money, but they never really...

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