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Wingo, Hugh The Doolittle Raid
Hugh Wingo was shipped to Tokyo, Japan. The carrier was in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] picking...
Blackwell, Astley The F4F and Loss of the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)
[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...
Kelley, Archie The First Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...
Blackwell, Astley The Future Depends on the Past
Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...
Taylor, Claude The G.I. Bill and Service During the Korean War
Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...
Norberg, Willard "Bill" The Great Depression
In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...
Duff, Clarence The Great Depression to the Invasion of Saipan
Clarence Robert Duff was born in 1923 in the farm country of North Dakota. He was one of nine children. His family was...
Caraway, John The Great Typhoon
There was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...
Raquepau, John The Grumman Avenger
John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note :Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51, USS San Jacinto (CVL-...
Lents, Robert The Guards and the Guarded
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...
Hoff, Donald The Hiryu Carrier at Midway
Donald Hoff's [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...
Henleben, Edwin The Invasion of Attu
Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...
Sullivan, George The Japanese Leave the Camp
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war held at the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp in Sandakan,...
Freligh, Robert The last months of the war
[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...
Ussery, Jake The Mariana Islands and Iwo Jima
Jake Ussery was aboard the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] following the American recapture of the...
Thomason, David The Mariana Islands and the Battle of Iwo Jima
[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...
Burke, Murphy The Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands and the Mission After Darkness
The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...
Carter, Alex The Mediterranean to the Pacific
Alex Carter Sr. went to Southern France. They used 50-cycle electricity. Carter met a girl that spoke perfect English....
Ramage, James D. "Jig Dog" The Mission After Darkness
One of the guys that James Ramage was flying with looked back at one of the burning Japanese carriers and said, "Look...
Foerster, David The Navy's First Hurricane Hunters
David Foerster was in the Azores when the war ended in Europe and Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...
Neyland, Leedell The Neyland Family
Leedell Neyland got his doctorate degree. He served as Vice President of Academics at Florida A...
Grahlfs, F. The Pacific
Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...
Stevens, Phineas The Pacific and Captain Scruggs
[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...
Baker, Sterling The Pacific and Discharge
Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...
Oney, James The Pacific to Home
On Treasury Island [Annotator's Note: Stirling Island, Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands], James Oney was in charge of...
Snyder, John The Pacific War
After leaving Italy, John Snyder was transported to another ship in the Pacific because they needed more corpsman out...
Donaldson, Buck The Panama Canal
Buck Donaldson went to Portland to get ready to go to Manila, the Philippines. Before they got there, the Japanese...
Sartori, Paul The Philippines
Paul Sartori Jr. went home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] and then went...
Grenny, Guy The Philippines
[Annotator's Note: Guy Grenny was stationed at the Naval Air Station in San Diego, California.] Grenny served food and...
Sparacino, Paul The Philippines
The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...
Thompson, Thomas The Philippines and Filipinos
Thomas D. Thompson boarded his Patrol Craft in Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] in the Lingayen Gulf [...
Grimes, James The Philippines, Guam, and China
James William Grimes [Annotator's Note: assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 45 (CASU 45) aboard the USS Hornet (...
Leaming, Jack The Prisoner Experience
Before the war, Jack Leaming had a Japanese friend in the second grade, whose parents sold Japanese clothing on the...

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