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[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...

Rollins Rosenzweig had a rough boot camp experience in San Diego. He did not complain but rather took it as it came. It...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

Once in the Navy, Arthur Fishman did not receive much training. He was taught how to read his gauges. On his way back...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

John Kreutzberg was born in July 1927 and grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He lived with his parents and aunt. He...

While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart. When he told Mangrum that...

Jack Yusen still frequently thinks about the men who died [Annotator's Note: when his ship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (...

Remi Kidder was sent to San Diego, California for his basic training. He was used to hard work and discipline so that...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...

After graduating from Navy training, Sam S. McKeel was assigned to LST-579 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] and...

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