Naval Aviation

Aerial bombardment (2477)
Air warfare (2269)
Submarine warfare (784)
Bailing out/loss of plane (664)
Naval shore bombardment (537)
Kamikazes (489)
Carrier warfare (425)
Dog fights (366)

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Geary, Joseph Prewar Life to Aviation Cadet
Joseph Geary was born in Dallas, Texas in February 1924. He was an only child and was pampered by his parents. His...
Elliott, Calvin Prewar Life to Basic Training
Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...
Landrum, Thomas Prewar Life to England
Thomas Landrum was born in April 1919 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father was a painter and paper hanger. He was sick...
Keller, Jack Prewar Life to England
Jack Keller was born in June 1924 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio]. His parents and brother were...
London, James Prewar Life to England
James Harvard London was born in Cordell, Oklahoma in June 1925. London does not remember growing up. His father worked...
Bebko, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Stephen Bebko was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in October 1925. There were three girls and five boys in his family...
Kennedy, Irvin F. Prewar Life to Enlistment
Irvin Kennedy was born and raised in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana] and...
Kirk, James Prewar Life to Enlistment
James Read Kirk was born in September 1924 in Watseka, Illinois. His parents moved to the Detroit area [Annotator's...
Monteyne, Joseph Prewar Life to Enlistment
Joseph Monteyne was a navigator with the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal Canadian Air Force] 425 Squadron, also known as...
McDermott, James Prewar Life to FLying Anti-Submarine Patrols
James J. McDermott was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in October 1920. He worked for a brick manufacturing plant and...
O'Donnell, Joseph Prewar Life to Gunnery
[Annotator's Note: This clip starts midsentence.] Joseph O'Donnell and some others were told that they will get them...
Masters, Robert Prewar Life to Navy
Robert Masters was born in Akron, Ohio in August 1925. When he was five years old, the family moved to Santa Monica [...
Hill, Jennings Prewar Life to North Africa
Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. was born in [Annotator's Note: unintelligible], West Virginia in 1924. Growing up during the...
Sandoz, James Prewar Life to Omaha Beach
James Sandoz was born in New Iberia, Louisiana in January 1924. His father was a farmer. They did not have electricity...
Coleman, Harper Prewar Life to Overseas
Harper Harvey Coleman was born in April 1922 in Newburg, Pennsylvania near Gettysburg [Annotator's Note: Gettysburg,...
Stone, Leno Prewar Life to Overseas
Leno E. Stone was born on 23 September 1921 in Red Lodge, Montana. As a child he went to school in Kalama, Washington...
Inscoe, Linwood S. Prewar Life to Overseas Deployment
Linwood S. Inscoe was born in Nashville, North Carolina in January 1924. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note...
Compton, Bryan Prewar Life to Overseas Deployment
Bryan Compton was born in Watonga, Oklahoma in 1919. He has lived around Watonga all his life and got to see the world...
Albright, William Prewar Life to Reported as Missing In Action
William Albright's father was a mailman. Albright was born in May 1923 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1960, he worked...
Brown, Jules Prewar Life to the Navy
Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....
Harvey, David Prewar Life to the Pacific
David Harvey was born in September 1926. [Annotator's Note: Harvey says he was born "around here" but the town name is...
Johnson, Erwin Prewar Life, Enlistment, Training and Deployment to the Philippines
Erwin Johnson was born in October 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended George Washington School through the...
Stone, Edward Prewar Service Aboard the USS Pyro (AE-1)
Edward Stone was aboard the Pyro [Annotator's Note: USS Pyro (AE-1)] and found the ship had good cooks. That was...
Ngai, Johnny Prewar to Africa
Yeu Foon, who changed his Chinese name to Johnny Ngai after the war, started out in North Africa [Annotator's Note: the...
Traina, Joseph Prewar to Coast Guard
Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...
Baker, Sterling Prewar to Coxswain
Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...
Fronk, Wesley Prewar to Drafted
Wesley Fronk was born in August 1922 in Jardine, Montana. His father was a homesteader. He grew up on the homestead. He...
Nickerson, Edward Prewar to England
Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...
Goebel, Robert Prewar to Fighter Pilot
Robert J. "Bob" Goebel was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He attended school there. He did not have any college when Pearl...
Ammerman, Gale Prewar to Glider Training
Gale Ammerman was born in Sullivan, Indiana in March 1923. He grew up there. After high school in Dugger, Indiana, he...
Griffith, Leon Prewar to Guarding the Florida Keys
Leon Griffith was born in Magee, Mississippi but raised in Monticello [Annotator's Note: Monticello, Mississippi] on a...
Reed, Raymond Prewar to Iceland
Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....
Goodwin, Hersey Prewar to Iwo Jima
Hersey Goodwin was born in January 1925 in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana in the town of Jones. He lived on a farm. He...
Ernest, Malcolm Prewar to Nichols Field
Malcolm Ernest was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in June 1916. He was at Nichols Field in Manila [Annotator's Note:...
Smith, William J. Prewar to Pilot
William Smith was born in Ashland, Kentucky in March 1922. His dad was a doctor who was a surgeon in World War 1. The...
Jones, Robert Prewar to Pilot Training
Robert Jones was born in Mendon, Michigan and spent his teenage life working on a farm. When he graduated high school,...

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