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The first island the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) approached was Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands], and...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...

Ray Camp was in the South Pacific. He was assigned to VPB-121 [Annotator’s Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 121]. He was a...

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

The LST-700 [Annotator's Note: USS LST-700] eventually made it back to the Philippines. Carey Suratt needed repair...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...

Robert Hammond had to deal with his own health when he was on leave in Philadelphia. He had an appendectomy, and while...

Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...

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

William Ward Crawford was born in 1914 in Akron, Ohio. He was aware of the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

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