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Archie Kelley [Annotator's Note: assigned to the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] was never questioned about Pearl Harbor...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] received news that his ship would take part in the...

Lowell Rodrigue received more training and was assigned to a unit that was on a Merchant Marine ship. They went to...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

James Oney and his outfit [Annotator's Note: ACORN 12; Aviation, Construction, Ordnance, Repair 12] loaded all of their...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Jack Holder did not talk about his World War 2 experiences until recently. He booked a trip to New York on an Arizona...

Hershel Hibbard recalled the process of refueling the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)]. Another ship...

Edward Chinnis enlisted in the Navy on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11 November 1942] in Raleigh, North Carolina then...

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