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Wesley John Dochick was born in December 1920 in New Britain, Connecticut. He had one brother and three sisters, and a...

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

Nicholas J. Zuras obtained binoculars in Weymouth [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England]. The wooden decks of the boats...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

William Cassady was assigned to the ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] in 1943. They went into...

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

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

Solis “Sol” Kaslow went through boot camp [Annotator’s Note: in Sampson, New York] and then was trained as a navigator...

After the Nuremberg trials, Whitney Harris went to Berlin as head of the legal advice branch on General Clay's [...

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

Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the Rangers [Annotator's Note:...

Harold Beal thought the English were nice people. They would travel up and down the coast to practice making landings....

Oral History