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John Finn stayed on .30 and .50 caliber machine guns throughout the battle, but couldn't be sure if he shot down any...

Jack Weiss was born in Elkhart, Indiana in June 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

Joseph Romano was born in May 1923 in Marrero [Annotator's Note: Marrero, Louisiana]. Growing up, there were poor...

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

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

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...

Lewis M. Lee, Sr. was born in June 1919 in Weston, Texas. He was the fifth of five sons whose mother died in childbirth...

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

Stegmeier was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1922. At the time of the interview he is 85 years old. He attended Grandview...

Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

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