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Olaf Rose said they did not go out every night, and they kept the engines tuned up, so there was not much work done on...

Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch OHare] really invented the Thatch Weave and Thatch's name was...

Eugene Tarrant went to join the military when he was 18. He was in good shape, about 175 pounds. A sergeant asked him...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

In April 1942, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned as the Electrician's Mate 3rd Class to the USS Plunger (SS-179). On...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Sterling Baker's records say that at Casablanca [Annotator's Note: Casablanca, Morocco] he was patrolling a lagoon, but...

At the same time Rochford was getting relieved, Captain Goggin was replacing him and was on the way to take over. There...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

The Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was out at sea on 7 December [Annotator's Note: for the...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

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