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  • Cassady, William Salerno to Okinawa

    William Cassady [Annotator’s Note: serving aboard the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] remembers German intelligence was ahead on everything [Annota

  • Cassady, William Shipped Overseas

    William Cassady was assigned to the ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] in 1943.

  • Cassidy, James European War Experience

    [Annotator’s Note: Can hear people talking in the background throughout segment.] Upon arrival in the United States, James Cassidy continued to rec

  • Cassidy, James Prewar

    James Cassidy was born in Rochester, New York in October 1925.

  • Cassidy, James Reflections of the War

    [Annotator’s Note: People talking in the background is audible throughout segment.] James Cassidy feels lucky that he came home and was able to liv

  • Cassidy, John Close Calls

    Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while their buddies dropped aerial

  • Cassidy, John Early Life

    John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a child, so his earliest yea

  • Cassidy, John Enlistment and Deployment

    John Cassidy majored in mining engineering during his first year at the University of Alabama, but he eventually graduated from the education depar

  • Cassidy, John Okinawa

    Returning to the Pacific on the USS Brown (DD-546), John Cassidy participated in the invasion of Okinawa.

  • Cassidy, John Patrolling Midway and Beyond

    After the clean-up of Pearl Harbor, John Cassidy chose to stay in the Pacific on the USS Vincennes (CA-44) which patrolled the larger islands aroun

  • Cassidy, John Personal Loss at Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school was aboard th

  • Cassidy, John Post War Career

    John Cassidy served as an aide to an admiral during his tenure in the Pacific, and the two men got along well.

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