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Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...

Glenn Frazier met a large sergeant when he arrived in Camp Shelby. Some of the new recruits were destined for Hawaii....

Philip Curran was in the Yellow Sea [Annotator's Note: sea located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula] for...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Once in the Navy, Arthur Fishman did not receive much training. He was taught how to read his gauges. On his way back...

Jack Werner was born in 1919 in Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His father was a mechanical engineer and...

David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...

Following the Doolittle Raid [Annotator's Note: named for its commander, then US Army Air Forces Colonel, later US Air...

[Annotator's Note: Orville Bethard served in the Navy as an Electrician’s Mate aboard USS Midway (CVE-63), renamed USS...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

Aboard his first ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32)], Lawrence Winnier was an officer's attendant. He...

David McKinley Blackwell entered the Army at Camp Polk [Annotator's Note: now Fort Polk in Vernon Parish, Louisiana]....

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