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Spencer, David Segment 7
David Paul Spencer did not run into problems with anyone except Goring [Annotators Note: German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, or Goering].
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Spencer, David Segment 8
David Paul Spencer could hear the testimony. It was all in German so he could not understand everything that was going on.
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Spencer, John Assuming Battle Stations on the USS Maryland (BB-46)
John Curtis Spencer said the USS Maryland (BB-46) was inboard of the USS Oklahoma (BB-37), and because the Oklahoma took the Japanese torpedoes, th
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Spencer, John Assuming Command of a Patrol Craft and Convoy Escort Duty
When John Curtis Spencer got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: in May 1942], he reported to sub chaser training command in Miami.
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Spencer, John Commanding Destroyer Escorts in the Atlantic and Pacific
John Curtis Spencer was given command of a destroyer escort, the USS Micka (DE-176), and did duty in the south Atlantic, the Caribbean, and running
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Spencer, John Early Life, Commissioning and Assignment
A captain when he was discharged from the Navy, John Curtis Spencer was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia and was accepted into the U.S.
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Spencer, John Patrolling the South Pacific and Australian Operations on Borneo
John Curtis Spencer said his first job in the Pacific was to escort a destroyer up to Lingayen Gulf, and the USS Formoe (DE-509) spent a couple mon
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Spencer, John Post War Naval Career
John Curtis Spencer said the USS Formoe (DE-509) was steaming up to Okinawa when the word came that the Americans had dropped the atomic bomb.
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Spencer, John Retirement and Reflections
John Curtis Spencer retired from the Navy as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations for Commander Service Force in 1965 in Norfolk, Virginia, and
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Spencer, John The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Capsizing of the USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
He had arrived in Pearl Harbor, but John Curtis Spencer was not aboard his ship when the Japanese attacked on 7 December 1941.
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Spencer, Wallace "Wallace Smigiro" After the War
Wallace Spencer and two others stole a whaleboat after the war. A wooden one. They were in Bremerton, Washington where they got discharged.
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Spencer, Wallace "Wallace Smigiro" Life aboard Ship
Wallace Spencer remembers the air groups and the pilots stayed away from the sailors.