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Wallace McKay left high school in 1943 and enlisted in the Navy. His enlistment was to end on his 21st birthday. His...

Vejtasa thought that the training he received was great. They would train as individuals as well as a group. In...

Dr. Robert Beynon was born in August 1924 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1942 and enlisted in the Navy....

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

[Annotator’s Note: The video begins with interviewee talking about how he wanted to write a book and working with a...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Fred L. Keller Jr. was born Algiers, Louisiana in January 1924. After he graduated high school, he got a job working at...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

After the war, Robert Perry found employment as a painter and as a lumber yard worker. He never used the G.I. Bill [...

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