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🌴 Pacific Theater
The Kamikaze Who Missed on Purpose
On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, Ensign Masajiro Miyashita flew his Zero toward the USS Kaloli, then pulled up at the last second and deliberately flew past the carrier without attacking, landing...
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🌴 Pacific Theater
The USS Indianapolis Survivors Who Survived Shark Attacks
After the cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese torpedoes on July 30, 1945, 880 men went into the water with almost no lifeboats or supplies. They survived four days in the Pacific. What history books often softe...
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Signalman James T. — Pearl Harbor / Pacific Theater — 1941-1945
I was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I was a seventeen-year-old signalman aboard the USS Oklahoma. When the attack came, I was asleep in my bunk. The first thing I knew was the sound — this enormous roar, like the whole world was tearing apart. I ran topside and saw a Japanese plane so close I could see the pilot's face. He was young. He looked scared too. Then the torpedoes hit. The Oklahoma rolled over. I ended up in the water with oil all over me. I remember thinking: the water is warm. That's the thing I remember most — the water was warm. I got picked up by a destroyer that was itse...