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Frederick Jenkins thought it was hard to get organized. He had a school teacher as his company commander during boot...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade does not know how World War 2 changed him. After he left the service, he wanted to go back to...

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] On 10...

David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

Aboard his first ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32)], Lawrence Winnier was an officer's attendant. He...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

Alfred Anthony Alvarez retired from the military as a lieutenant colonel. He had earned a CIB [Annotator's Note: the...

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941], J. W. Childs saw one Japanese...

Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

In July 1945, Peter Hebert enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and was sent to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego,...

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