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Walter John Guyote cheated on the eye exam to get into the Navy. He was sent to San Diego, California for boot camp. He...

After repairs to the ship were complete, Mark Brannon said the USS Hutchins (DD-746) stopped at San Diego, California...

Wilbur Rogers laughs at remembering the reward for picking up a downed pilot: ice cream. For each man a ship picked up...

Noah Lewis thinks the white servicemen were promoted to better positions than their black counterparts. He knows in the...

Annotator’s Note: Video and sound are very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

After Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Norman Sterrie...

Rollins Rosenzweig was born in 1924 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His father was a prosperous man who had a grocery store...

Marvin Hill was born in November 1925 in Louisa County, Virginia, the only male child of six children. His father was...

Clyde Barber was born in May 1924 in Drennan, Colorado. Each of his five brothers and one sister were born in different...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...

From New Guinea, Jack Yusen and the other survivors [Annotator's Note: survivors of the 25 October 1944 sinking of the...

Ralph Weymouth was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga (CV-3)] in San Diego when he learned of the...

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