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The closest call Thomas Long recalled was the time he was dropping dynamite to repel enemy swimmers whose mission was...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

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

Edward Nacey and his crew got new pilots and went to bomb Peel [Annotator's Note: Peel, Netherlands]. Having seen what...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment. Video begins Andrew Petrus of Company G, 2nd...

For William McCowen's [Annotator's Note: as a US Air Force copilot in the 307th Strategic Bomb Wing stationed at Kadena...

The closer Carey Suratt got to Japan, the more aggressive things became. On his second trip to Leyte, the 459 [...

Martin Sherbecoe recalled a couple of incidents from PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] school. One...

John Nicholas first experienced an aerial attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)] a few months...

Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

Henry A. Tacket was aboard the USS Heermann (DD-532) during the Battle off Samar. Battle damage examination afterward...

In the 1950s, Eileen Noll recognized the changes for women in the military. She felt more respected and leaned upon by...

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