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On that Saturday [Annotator's Note: 6 December 1941], Archie Kelley's uncle Bruce [Annotator's Note: US Navy Commander...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Robert Dannehl had further trained in Portland, Maine where he became an operator of a high frequency direction finder...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...

Harold Buell was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga (CV-3)] when she arrived at Midway following the...

John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...

Robert Dannehl was a radio operator [Annotator’s Note: on the USS Hubbard (DE-211)]. He got liberty [Annotator's Note:...

William Beaman was born in October 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, the only boy of three children. His father died when he was...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

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