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When Claire Maddox went into the service [Annotator's Note: in the summer of 1943], he had the option to pick any of...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

Sidney Grossman remembered the day when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd...

Frederick Jenkins went through the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: Manmade canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was serving stateside near the war's end. He was assigned to shore patrol in Hollywood [Annotator's...

Harper Gruber described the crew as being divided between the dark crew - motor macs [Annotator's Note: motor machinist...

Floyd James Reissig does not think the war changed him too much but helped him grow up. It did not affect his marriage...

James Warren David recalled getting seasick occasionally, especially if the conditions were rough. After serving in the...

Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

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