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During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

Hugh Wingo was shipped to Tokyo, Japan. The carrier was in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] picking...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that he wanted to join the Navy because he wanted to fight like the rest of his friends. He...

Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...

Clayton Fisher volunteered to fly an SB2A Brewster [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer scout bomber] and lead...

Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

Starnes has thought about the night the USS Boise ambushed the Tokyo Express many times. He had a sense of apprehension...

Between graduating from college and beginning the program at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,...

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior volunteered for quartermaster school in the Navy. He was advised to sail on as...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

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