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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

After Leyte, Harper Gruber's vessel [Annotator's Note: USS YMS-339] took part in the second invasion [Annotator's Note...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

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