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Karr, Robert Segment 1
Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 1
The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...
Ward, Harold Segment 1
Harold Ward was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in April 1921. Ward had the life of a bastard growing up as he was...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Alex Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 1
James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 1
Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...
Hopkins, Lewis Segment 1
Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...
Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 1
Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry “Butch”...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 1
Baptiste was born in Saint James Parish, Louisiana on 4 November 1916. He is in town [Annotator's Note: New Orleans]...
Starnes, James Segment 1
Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...
Wiley, Delmar Segment 1
Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 1
Earnest was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was born on April 1st, 1917. HIs father was in the Light Infantry Blue,...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 1
Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...
Kleiss, Norman "Dusty" Segment 1
[Annotators Note: Norman Kleiss starts the interview by reading a narrative about the causes that led up to the Pearl...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 10
Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...
Brooks, Howard Segment 10
1 morning the prisoners were called out. They were usually called out every morning so the Japanese could do a head...
Merrill, Milford "Bud" Segment 10
When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...
Karr, Robert Segment 10
It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 10
The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...
Ward, Harold Segment 10
By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...
Crain, Joe Segment 10
Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 10
James understands that movies are made so people think they are interesting. He understands that Hollywood adds its own...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 10
Years later Vejtasa asked Japanese veterans if they had thought about strafing the deck and they said no. Vejtasa would...
Crain, Joe Segment 10
Crain believes that it is important to have museums such as The World War II Museum [Annotator's Note: The National...
Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 10
When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 10
Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 10
The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 10
Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...
Kleiss, Norman "Dusty" Segment 10
[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 11
The next morning Alexander Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...
Brooks, Howard Segment 11
In the hospital they were treated very nice and given so much food that they couldn't eat it all. There was also...
Karr, Robert Segment 11
Karr believed that Admiral Becton [Annotator's Note: F. Julian Becton was the Commander of the Laffey] was a very, very...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 11
Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...
Ward, Harold Segment 11
It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...
Crain, Joe Segment 11
The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

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