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Reflecting on his most outstanding memory of World War 2, John Cassidy said it was surviving the Kamikaze attacks in...

The Medusa [Annotator's Note: USS Medusa (AR-1)] was not far from them [Annotators Note: during the attack on Pearl...

Robert Taylor went on a patrol on a training site on Upolu, Samoa. His unit [Annotator's Note: Taylor served in the...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Nimocks Foyle Ladner already in conversation with the interviewer.] Ladner...

Harry Watson said describing life aboard a submarine can be confusing to someone who isn't qualified. Once qualified, a...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for submarine duty on 11 February 1943 and was called up a week later. He did not have a...

Harry Watson said that when the war started, the submarines were used merely as a scouting force. They would get...

[Annotator's Note: Emil Schoonejans served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Burrfish (SS-312) and was rated a...

Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

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

Donald Herbert Shown picked up a lifejacket from the grouping he found in nets on the boat deck [Annotator’s Note:...

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