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Hartsel Ross set sail on a ship loaded with cargo that was needed in the Pacific. The ship crossed through the Panama...

John Scott Campbell thinks that "tin horn dictators" will have a harder time getting a hold on a country [Annotator's...

Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...

James Crane got into the Merchant Marine because Roosevelt [Annotator’s Note: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-conversation.] Edward Kissam's father was associated with a saw mill. It...

Hartsel Ross's most memorable experience of World War 2 was losing his convoy in fog while sailing in the North Sea. He...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Scott Campbell what he thinks the significance of having The National WWII...

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

James Crane experienced a great change in the Merchant Marine. He was concerned about making the first convoy, but he...

Edward Kissam was assigned to a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], the SS Thomas...

John Scott Campbell was born in August 1926 in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved from there to Texas. His father was in the...

Sherman Vangrov was born in March 1927 in Dayton, Ohio, but moved around the county because his mother was ill. He...

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