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Baker, Sterling Eating Coconuts and Being Hit
Sterling Baker's records say that at Casablanca [Annotator's Note: Casablanca, Morocco] he was patrolling a lagoon, but he does not recal
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Baker, Sterling Invasion of Saipan
Sterling Baker was on the invasions of Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands] and Enewetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok
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Baker, Sterling Kamikazes, Scouts and Raiders and Navy SEALs
Sterling Baker was on the invasion of Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands].
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Baker, Sterling North Africa and Being Torpedoed
Sterling Baker was training in the Chesapeake Bay when he learned his unit had gone on leave and he did not get to.
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Baker, Sterling Pearl Harbor and VJ-Day
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Sterling Baker if he recalls a wide variety of ships being hit. He does not].
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Baker, Sterling Prewar to Coxswain
Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great Depression.
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Baker, Sterling The Pacific and Discharge
Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near Casablanca, Morocco].
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Baker, Sterling Thoughts on War
Sterling Baker was in the National Youth Administration and trained to be a carpenter. He was also in charge of the Army mules and wagons.
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Baker, Vernon Segment 1
[Annotator's Note: video begins with 19 seconds of silence then begins abruptly with Baker in mid-sentence.] Vernon Baker was born and raised
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Baker, Vernon Segment 10
Vernon Baker retired in Idaho. One day he got a call from Professor Gibran at Shaw University. He asked what Baker knew about the Medal of Honor.
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Baker, Vernon Segment 11
On 13 January 1997 Vernon Baker flew to Washington DC with his family.
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Baker, Vernon Segment 12
Vernon Baker looked at things differently after the war.