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Sterling Baker was training in the Chesapeake Bay when he learned his unit had gone on leave and he did not get to. He...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

Jack Leaming arrived in Tokyo after the Japanese surrender and was put aboard a hospital ship. They were stripped naked...

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

When he heard that the war had ended, Robert Dickinson was disappointed that he wasn't going back to combat in the...

When Crain got a chance to examine his boat he noticed there were about 50 to 75 marks in the steel where bullets had...

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

[Annotator's Note: Alfred Taddeo served in the Navy as a fighter pilot aboard the USS Nassau (CVE-16) in the Aleutian...

By the time they [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the others in his group of survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-...

Because James McCorriston had attended machinist mate school, he was transferred to the B Division [Annotator's Note:...

Fred Bergeron was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in January 1923. Custom dictated that the mother would be taken care of...

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