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Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

Jack Madden was born in Troy, New York in 1924. He is a lifetime resident of Troy. Troy was a good town in which to...

Pastor Dale Peterson was born in Warren, Minnesota in February 1926. He grew up in the Great Depression. His life was...

Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...

It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...

Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...

Perry Strait received no benefits from his service in the Merchant Marines or the Maritime Service. It was difficult to...

Norman Bussel worked building B-25 bombers [Annotator’s Note: North American B-25 Mitchell] at the Fisher Body plant [...

George Scholes was flown to Pearl Harbor, which was just a muddy mess then. Much of the damage from the attack had been...

From there [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] they returned to Pearl Harbor. There, James Allen joined the Silversides [...

Donald Witmer was on the USS Twiggs (DD-591) for its shakedown cruise to Bermuda. It was Christmas of 1943, and Witmer...

Clarence Schilperoot took a train ride from his point of enlistment in Seattle to San Diego. He was awed in seeing the...

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