Includes bibliographical references and index.

We plummeted like a rock out of the sky / Charles Harper -- It's a little hard to go to sleep at night / Atias Rodriguez -- Didn't they know they weren't supposed to shoot at me? / James McKernon Jones -- For Christ's sake, they're killing people all over the place / Harry Haines -- What the hell are they applauding for? / Bill Dallas -- They're not gonna get me, it's gonna be somebody else / Manuel Palmer -- Three years of degradation and human bullshit / Charles Clinton Green -- Ninety percent of what I know I learned aboard submarines / Rufus Roark -- I woke up to see a rifle muzzle pointed in my face / Ira Simpson -- I went to many places I never would have gone / John T. Ferguson -- It was not love at first sight / Robert and Virginia Gibeson -- Shells from the Japanese fleet splashed around us / Ron Vaughn -- It seemed like a million years, even though it was only two / Joe Leeah -- The Japs made them dig their own graves / Thornton Hamby -- One-man show : pilot, navigator, bombardier / Rip Collins -- We never shirked a duty / Lloyd Groce.