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After Lawrence Winnier left the Argonne [Annotator's Note: USS Argonne (AS-10)], he was sent to Schumacher, California...

James Gaffney never spotted any Japanese while patrolling Bougainville. They did observe and report a bright light on...

Arthur Fishman is a World War 2 Navy veteran. He had three sons and several grandchildren, and his wife passed away. He...

Wallace Spencer remembers when they were under attack. All the guns were firing. The crew was sitting there watching...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. served on the Tippecanoe [Annotator's Note: USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)] which was 480 feet long...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

When the overhaul on the USS Hutchins (DD-746) was complete, Mark Brannon took off for its next assignment, operating...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for service with the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs partially understood what Operation Crossroads [Annotator's Note: a pair of nuclear weapons tests...

Paul Sartori Jr.’s father was an immigrant from northern Italy. They were carriage makers and blacksmiths. His father...

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