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The Americans

USS CABOT
(CVL-28)

USS ESSEX
(CV-9)

USS HANCOCK
(CV-19)

USS INTREPID
(CV-11)

 

The Japanese

The Kamikazes

A6M Zero

D4Y SUISEI

IJN Kumano

IJN Yasoshima

 

Narrated By

Marvin Scott

 

Historical Advisor

Michael Marmé, PH.D.
Fordham University,
New YORK, NY

 

REcommended links

World War II
Multimedia Database

Nine Sisters

 

Produced with the Support of
The Intrepid Air-Sea-Space Museum

Main Camera by
Karl Smith

Production Assistant
Madani Adjali

Edited by
Brendan Yi-Fu Tay

Additional Editing by
Jessica Gordon

Additional Camera by
Jack Peele
Emmanuel Ramjit
Tansal Arnas

Sound by
Jessica Gordon
Stefan Dainard

Lighting by
Valentine Sanders
Alain LeMaire

Driver
Louis Ascatigno

Project Consultant
Peter Stoudt

Student Interviewees
Issa Blondeau
Frances Choi
Caitlin Cisek
Hannah Kilgore
Nao Otaka
Peter Zarcone

Veterans

USS Cabot
Gene Masucci

USS Essex
John Giganti

USS Hancock
I. D. “Inny” Cerbini
Frank Maurizio

USS Intrepid
Ed Coyne
Lou Valenti

Photo and Video Sources
The National Archives
United States Navy Historical Center
The Internet Archive
Ed Coyne
I. D. “Inny” Cerbini
John Giganti
Gene Masucci
Frank Maurizio
Lou Valenti

Transcripts by
Jessica Gordon
Lisa Plisko

Music by
Justin R. Durban
Edgen Animations


Special Thanks

Denise M. Nash
Public Relations Coordinator
Intrepid Air-Sea-Space Museum

Lori & Terry McDonald

Terry Meyers

Clinton Simmons
Henninger Video

Dr. Richard Streb
Life and Death Aboard the USS Essex

Bill Anderson
USS Cabot Association

Jack McKnight, Jr.

The United States Navy Historical Center

The Internet Archive