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Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

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

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

Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....

Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that the USS PGM-1 had patrol duty around the Philippines. He recalled the kamikaze attacks...

Fred Bergeron was 19 years old when he took part in the Battle of Midway. He did not really have any idea just how...

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

Jean D. "JD" Johnson's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the time his submarine [Annotator's Note: the USS...

The invasion of Attu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Attu, Alaska, 11 to 30 May 1943] was made with fresh troops from the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen where he was when the atomic bombs were dropped on...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in...

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