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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John McCarthy to describe rescuing a Merchant Marine who had fallen off his...

William Harvey was stationed on a big island named Burrwood [Annotator's Note: Burrwood, Louisiana]. The United States...

Richard Swanson received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal [Annotator's Note: the highest non-combat decoration awarded...

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

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

Raymond Downs and his family were taken to a hospital in Morgan City, Louisiana. They were not allowed to call their...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer. His job was to make sure the plane was...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John McCarthy if they ever forced any German submarines, or u-boats, to surface...

Walter Broll passed through the station [Annotator's Note: the Merchant Marine training station at Sheepshead Bay in...

In Norfolk, Virginia, Leo Praetorius was assigned to several different pilots. They were training up and down the east...

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

Raymond Downs and a historian wrote a book about the experience. He collected his mother's, father's, and sister's...

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