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Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

Norman Sterrie has come to view Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942] as an important...

Emil Kesselman liked being a civilian and a father, and did not have any ideas of going back in the service [Annotator’...

John "Jack" Raquepau got called to go to Preflight School in early November 1942. He went to boot camp which was called...

Remi Kidder was sent to San Diego, California for his basic training. He was used to hard work and discipline so that...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] During his service in the...

Harold Zeringer was a participant in the assault to take the Japanese held island of Okinawa. The invasion took place...

Once in the Navy, Arthur Fishman did not receive much training. He was taught how to read his gauges. On his way back...

To conserve what little was left in the battery, Donald Hoff turned off the transmitter, receiver, intercom and IFF or...

George Joseph Sullivan was on a ship gun crew. When he would be sitting off the beach, he would ask to go ashore. Once...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was a crewman on an LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also...

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