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At the end of the war, James Thomas Womack was in the process of being transferred off the USS Rehobath (AVP-50) to...

On 7 December 1941, Jack Holder was on duty at Ford Island, [Annotator’s Note: Ford Island, Hawaii]. His unit was in a...

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

It was getting dark when they took off after the Japanese fleet. The most Jack Glass had flown up to that point was...

Floyd James Reissig sailed around Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] towards Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note...

Harold C. Cook entered the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....

During the days following their [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the other survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35...

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

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