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Paul Sparacino thought the explosions were unreal [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)...

Alvin Barnes had coincidental meetings with a childhood friend during the war. He had a friend named Paul [Annotator's...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

Richard Tempus Dixon progressed through jobs as a building superintendent, including a time at University of California...

Howard Robert Charles became a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: after the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30) in...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

George Joseph Bertucci felt the war improved him because he furthered his education afterwards. He had ambition to do...

John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was quickly released from the Navy after the war and attended college on the G.I. Bill [...

Loren Bennett went to boot camp at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois]....

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] "PB"...

Eugene Tarrant was born in Ennis, Texas. When he was three, his family moved to Dallas. His mother and father figured...

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