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Theodore Vallas joined the Navy in 1939 when students in college were being prepared to go to the anticipated war....

Winfield Zerphey and the crew of his Consolidated PB4Y [Annotator's Note: the PB4Y was the US Navy variant of the...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser served aboard the SS Kalliopi in Russia where they loaded lumber for England.] They...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. He doesn't recall the cargo on his first trip...

The draft board sent William Nesser a notice to report. He disregarded it, because he had his time in [Annotator's Note...

After a couple of months on the HMCS Annapolis (DDH-265), Thomas Payn was reassigned to the base in Halifax [Annotator'...

Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

According to Thomas Payn, the Atlantic convoys were under attack from E-boats [Annotator's Note: German Schnellboot or...

James Anthony Gabour enlisted in the National Guard [Annotator's Note: in 1941] and then he was eventually transferred...

The English Navy provisioned the Canadian sailors' mess and Thomas Payn said they ate a lot of strong smelling mutton....

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