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Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...

George Mouton went to San Pedro, California, and reported aboard the USS Bosque (APA-135). From there he went to Pearl...

The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alexander Vraciu was...

Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...

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

Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...

Peter Hebert’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was wanting to join the Navy and the patriotism of the country...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Harold Ronson went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to...

Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

Paul J. Murphy had his first campaign [Annotator’s Note: as a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] in...

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