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When the crew abandoned the USS Perch (SS-176), Robert Lents said some of the guys in the water turned on their...

Ray Eshelman was in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] and went to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

Joseph LaNier joined the United States Navy in February 1944. African-Americans prior to 1942 were not allowed to join...

Alfred Taddeo is from Portland, Oregon. While there with a group of classmates at the University of Portland Oregon [...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Denver (CL-58) at Bougainville, covering the landing troops. They would bombard the...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson served aboard the USS Jamestown...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

Elmer Spraker thought he might transition into rebuilding maritime engines in the civilian sector, and in this section...

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

Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...

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