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[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool was born in July 1920 in Queens County, New York. She went to Connecticut College [...

After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

Edward Thomas Toole's most memorable moment was when Japan surrendered. That meant the war was over. That was a...

George Mouton was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1926. He was young during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

[Annotator’s Note: the interview start is preceded by a brief discussion by Donald Herbert Shown of his five years...

Leon Griffith had a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun] on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte...

After returning from his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], James W. Metcalf...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

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