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Theodore Vallas joined the Navy in 1939 when students in college were being prepared to go to the anticipated war....

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

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.] They returned to...

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

Robert Martin got married in 1950. He bought his first house on the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or...

Neither Nicholas J. Zuras nor his crew were told about the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

Milton Muelder, one of seven children, grew up in a Methodist minister's family and was taught the importance of social...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmen aboard the USS LST-53] has no particular memory of D-Day [Annotator's Note: D...

Alex Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] They had rocket boats [Annotator...

John Edmund Murman was born in March 1926 in Brooklyn, New York as an only child. His father served in the Marines...

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