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On 7 December 1941, Alfred Raymond was sleeping and someone came and woke him up to tell him that the Japanese had...

James Gaffney discusses the details of the type of torpedo used on the PT Boat on which he was assigned as a crewman....

Claude Bufford Shaw grew up around Carson Lake [Annotator's Note: Carson Lake, Arkansas] until he was about 11 years...

Louis Conter returned to the United States for night fighter training. When he received his commission in New Guinea,...

The first couple times Arthur Killam was depth charged it was a little hairy but he does not recall getting too upset...

Emmett Charles Guderian Jr., was born in December 1926 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He...

Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard USS LST-781] moved around the South...

Thomas Tizzard was assigned to the USS Denver (CL-58) and was interviewed by an officer asking what his previous jobs...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Peter Hebert’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was wanting to join the Navy and the patriotism of the country...

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