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Depth charge released from the bow of Patrol craft boat. "15 - photos - 5. General Release. January 25, 1943. Action...

"12650-010 Photos0-01265. General Release. January 25, 1943. Action aboard a PC boat on patrol duty with an Atlantic...

[Annotator's Note: Frank Purvis was assigned to the USS Snowden (DE-246), a brand new destroyer escprt.] After they...

After Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Raymond Gimbut sailed to California, then to the...

[Annotator's Note: Frank Purvis' first Atlantic crossing was aboard the USS Snowden (DE-246), escorting a large convoy...

Irvin C. Klimas was in boot camp for six weeks. After boot camp, he had a ten day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Frank Purvis says there a lot of things that stick in your mind. One of the destroyer escorts lost a man overboard. The...

Edgar De Pue Osgood and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 111 (VPB-111)] were in Florida when...

John Laster said he would not like to go back through it, but his service during World War 2 was quite an experience,...

Edgar De Pue Osgood was not shot up on any of his missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...

Frank Dominic Lanzetta was born in August 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He had six...

James Paul Lynch was on the Wainwright [Annotator's Note: USS Wainwright (DD-419)] until June 1942 in the North...

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