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After serving aboard the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke DD-4156)], Claude Bufford Shaw was assigned to the Bullard...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

Robert Brant and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Naval Construction Battalion] invaded Bougainville [Annotator's Note...

Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

Joseph Fisher joined the Navy in 1942. His big brother was in the Navy. They used to swim a lot growing up. Fisher was...

James Ramage was at Pearl Harbor when the Battle of Midway took place. He was not aboard ship at the time. The...

Vejtasa thought that the training he received was great. They would train as individuals as well as a group. In...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if, as an American immigrant in the Navy, he was invested in...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Upon turning 21, Peter Hebert‘s enlistment was up, and he tried to reenlist while he was still in the Philippines...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

Dale Smith was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine repair and supply ship. It was big and had about 800...

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