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Mitchell Zimmer served aboard two sister-ship submarines, the Snapper [Annotator's Note: USS Snapper (SS-185) and the...
After Pearl Harbor, Donald Witmer's next destination was Eniwetok Atoll. When they arrived, there were no Japanese...
Arthur Davis was born in March 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from Tulane University, he was an...
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roy Boreen was stationed at the Section Base until 1943. After that, he was sent to...
Jack Leaming joined the US Navy in December 1938 and was assigned to the USS Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS...
Marvin Westcott describes his experiences and observations of the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He...
Arles E. Cole missed breakfast and woke a few minutes before eight o’clock in the morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a...
Patrick Russell flew ground support for the battle of Okinawa. His plane carried various types of ordnance. Some had...
Patrick Russell made the reports on the 20 or 25 accidents sustained by aircraft in January [Annotator's Note: 1945]....
Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior decided to use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...
Harold Buell returned to the United States after his Air Group 2 on Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet (CV-12)] was...
When Robert Freligh got out of the navy he went back to school at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. They had to go to...
After discharge, Windom Joseph Burton briefly used the G.I Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...
Louis Conter returned to the United States for night fighter training. When he received his commission in New Guinea,...
Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...
In the first days of June [Annotator's Note: June 1942], Donald Hoff and his fellow airmen were getting nervous,...
David Harvey was born in September 1926. [Annotator's Note: Harvey says he was born "around here" but the town name is...
When Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] saw the wing...
Jack Leaming and the crew of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) left Pearl Harbor and attacked the Marshall Islands in February...
Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...
Dossie East's first encounter with the Japanese was in the Battle of the Coral Sea. During that battle, East's ship [...
Theodore Vallas was one of the first pilots to be catapulted off an aircraft carrier. There was risk in the water ahead...
Donald Wilson was changed by the Second World War. He lost friends on his ship [Annotator's Note: USS New Orleans (CA-...
Salvador Perino's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)] was brought to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...
Harold Buell is proud to have been a dive bomber pilot. He was recalled from the United States to help a squadron that...
Myron J. Carraway remembers Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Carraway was aboard the USS Hulbert (AVD-6) during the...
Stewart Bass' most memorable experience in World War 2 was his participation in the attack on the Japanese battleship...
Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...
Bill Norberg took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...
Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...
[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...
Norman Sterrie has come to view Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942] as an important...
After the war ended, Harry Walker Wellford and his crewmates enjoyed watching movies on the fantail [Annotator's Note:...
Thomas Wicker received orders to serve on an oilier, which he was not thrilled about. He graduated from Tulane...
[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...
[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

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