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When their training schedule was complete, James “Jim” R. Boyd and the rest of his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Motor...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

Martin Sherbecoe recalled a couple of incidents from PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] school. One...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

When the 12 ships in his squadron hit Diamondhead [Annotator's Note: the volcanic crater on Oahu, Hawaii], 6 went south...

James Francis McCorriston was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in February 1925, but grew up in Florence, New Jersey....

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Martin Carmody was raised in California and was a senior at San Jose State University. His family had lived there for...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

[Annotator's Note: The video begins with William Leibold taking the interviewers through a book of photographs. The...

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