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Leaming, Jack Going Home and Postwar Service
Jack Leaming arrived in Tokyo after the Japanese surrender and was put aboard a hospital ship. They were stripped naked...
Bennett, Loren Life Aboard Ship
Loren Bennett thought it was easy to manage the limits of what could be sent home because they were at sea. The guys...
Tarrant, Eugene Supporting the Marines on Tarawa, Survival at Sea and Seeing War
The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...
Gruber, Harper Reflections
There was a radioman on Harper Gruber's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS YMS-339] who would pick up the world news and...
Carraway, Myron Early Life and Navy Entry
Myron J. Carraway was born in Idaho [Annotator’s Note: in Jackson, Idaho in March 1922] and grew up there. He graduated...
Twible, Harlan End of the Ordeal
By the time they [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the others in his group of survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-...
Buckley, James Human Interactions
In the whole time James Buckley was on duty in the Pacific [Annotator's Note: as Deck Officer on the USS LST-1013], he...
Rodrigues, Alfred Postwar
Alfred Rodrigues was involved with new construction at the Brooklyn Navy Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn Navy Yard...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 2
Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...
Samuelson, Jack Okinawa
Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...
Snyder, Phillip "PB" Wanting to Fight
[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] In...

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