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The planes did not form up, instead they headed out one by one. They also did not go up to their normal cruising height...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

William Lee Barnes enlisted in the Navy and was given basic training at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station...

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior [Annotator's Note...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

Hugh Wingo and his unit trained at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] for a while before they went...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell served as a...

When Ernest Cowell was in high school, his friends started being drafted. One boy was a tanker [Annotator's Note: part...

Henry Ratcliff was born in January 1923 in Columbia, Louisiana. He had five brothers. He grew up in the area of...

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. After a very successful first...

Theodore Pavlovich discussed the effectiveness of the weapons he used during his time as an infantryman. He also...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

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