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The duration of a typical watch for Robert Fitz was two hours, except in the places like the Arctic, where it was so...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

Anthony Bianconi [Annotator's Note: a musician and ammunition loader on the cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41)] was...

John A. McCarthy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His family moved to Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. He was...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow was born in 1925 [Annotator’s Note: he grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. His father worked on...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was taking part in Operation Tiger, or Exercise Tiger, April 1944, preparing for the D-...

In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...

Robert Martin was in the service from August [Annotator's Note: 14 August 1945] until the day before he was 21 years...

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Harold Beal wanted to go into the Navy because he got around his father’s boat quite well. He was in the Navy for four...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Charles Walker what his most memorable experience was.] While he was flying P-...

Alois Kopp escaped from a sinking Hell Ship and swam to the beach on Burma only to be recaptured by the Japanese. The...

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