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Lorainne McCaslin was about 15 years old and lying on the sofa in the family living room when she intercepted the...

Bennett Sparks remembered that early in the war, before he was flying, one of his jobs in New York Harbor involved...

A number of years ago, Ben Epstein recalled, he was part of a survivors' organization that found two survivors of the...

Theodore Vallas joined the Navy in 1939 when students in college were being prepared to go to the anticipated war....

Edgar De Pue Osgood and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 111 (VPB-111)] were in Florida when...

Winfield Zerphey and the crew of his Consolidated PB4Y [Annotator's Note: the PB4Y was the US Navy variant of the...

On the big merchant ships, Clifton Trahan was a fireman and water tender [Annotator's Note: Trahan worked in the engine...

Bennett Sparks noted that he did a temporary stint very late in the war at the Marine Air Base in Cherry Point, North...

When the ship arrived, F. Lincoln Grahlfs went out to sea for ten months. The ship was a patrol craft. After the...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

Edgar De Pue Osgood was not shot up on any of his missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...

John DuBose reached his new ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Bostonian] and was immediately given lifeboat training. He...

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