"When the kamikaze start coming … that's when it starts getting real tense."

Edward Wadington

Edward Wadington, age 19 [1943] War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Navy Unit: USS Missouri Service Location: Pacific Theater Rank: Storekeeper Third Class Place of Birth: Chicago, IL

Edward Wadington served aboard the U.S.S Missouri from its first year of service until shortly after the end of the war. In addition to his description of a kamikaze attack that struck his gun turret, an incident now memorialized in a famous photograph, he provides a fascinating first-person account of the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri on September 2, 1945.