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

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee pauses and speaks slowly throughout this clip.] In September 1945, William Ward...

Billy Grieves watches movies like Run Silent, Run Deep religiously. He feels that they are more Hollywood than reality...

Marvin Tyson was in Little Creek, Virginia [Annotator's Note: Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, now Joint...

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

Francis Bucher says the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

Robert Swan and the other officers in his squadron, Patrol Squadron 44 or VP-44, did everything underground while they...

Emil Kesselman’s discharge date was set for August 1950 and he went home to New York, and to work at Brillo [Annotator’...

O'Callahan [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient US Navy Captain Joseph T. O'Callahan] was all over the place. He...

Norman Sterrie thought he would be going home [Annotator's Note: he was a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo plane pilot in...

Life was rather simple in Honolulu, Hawaii when Ray Emory got there in October 1941. He didn't drink in those days, so...

Robert Barnett was at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands] about ten days before the invasion of...

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