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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison was a member of the US Marine Corps 1st Raider Battalion.]Edson [Annotators Note: US...

Elmer Spraker thought he might transition into rebuilding maritime engines in the civilian sector, and in this section...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] received news that his ship would take part in the...

Rufus Harris does not recall celebrating the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

Jack Leaming was shipped to the Ofuna prison camp after Yokohama. Baths were in individual tubs with water heaters. The...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Denver (CL-58) at Bougainville, covering the landing troops. They would bombard the...

Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands] was a morale...

James Warren David recalled a time while he was in Pool Boat 12 when a Chaplain and local representative wanted to go...

In March 1944, at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, Charles Chatterton was assigned to the USS LCI(L)-334 [Annotator'...

Jack Holder did not talk about his World War 2 experiences until recently. He booked a trip to New York on an Arizona...

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