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

Robert Savage was assigned as the radio man on the USS Springfield (CL-66), which received orders to escort a heavy...

Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

[Annotators Note: Charles Bishop served in the navy aboard the destroyer USS Cummings (DD-365) then later aboard the...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Wilbur Rogers' discharge was based on the convenience of the government and was affected at New Orleans, Louisiana on...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Barnett looks for some notes.] The Scouts and Raiders was formed in 1942. They [Annotator's...

Raymond Gimbut joined the crew of the Selfridge [Annotator's Note: USS Selfridge (DD-357)]. He thought it was a good...

Eugene Corson was born in March 1922 in Stanford, Connecticut. In 1936, his father got a job working on submarines in...

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...

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