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[Annotator’s Note: There is a person assisting the interviewee with answering Interviewer’s questions throughout the...

Charles Walker was in the Mediterranean Sea and the Soviets [Annotator's Note: Soviet Navy] had a fleet of its own...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

When the war ended, the Sway [Annotator's Note: USS Sway (AM-120)] swept mines off Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was going to be sent...

Alois Kopp was in Pocatello, Idaho in the Civilian Conservation Camp when the Navy recruited him. He was sent to San...

Robert "Bob" Lowry left the Navy as a Seaman 1st Class. When he was young in Greenwood [Annotator's Note: Greenwood,...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmember aboard the USS LST-53] did not like the Germans or the Japanese. He still...

After he completed his training, Paul Rothenheber was assigned to the USS Monticello (APA-61), a troop transport ship....

Herbert Fontenot found a sweetheart after his discharge from the Navy. She was similar in background to him. They fell...

Joseph Hartmann remembers that by 6:30 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

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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