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[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] In...

Donald Herbert Shown joined the Navy and completed boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] in...

Years ago Delewski did an interview for National Geographic. He accompanied his commanding officer Captain Becton [...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: Shown had become a crewman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in 1939] headed...

While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez was clearing out a town [Annotator's Note: with the 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry...

Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

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