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Norman Kleiss knew Peter Gaido pretty well. When Kleiss was about to take off for his first carrier landing he was...

John E. Johnson's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Liddle (APD-60)] stayed in China for a few weeks, mostly for rest and...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman in June 1944. His crew got along well together...

John Nicholas's ship, the USS Gayety (AM-239), participated in submarine chasing in the Pacific. He set the depth...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs partially understood what Operation Crossroads [Annotator's Note: a pair of nuclear weapons tests...

Paul Sartori Jr.’s father was an immigrant from northern Italy. They were carriage makers and blacksmiths. His father...

Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

Paul J. Murphy got into the water which was covered with oil and black tar [Annotator’s Note: he had just abandoned the...

James Warren David was born in Youngsville, Louisiana in January 1926. During the Great Depression, his father and...

Meda Royce Hall was a Ground School Gunnery Instructor at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida when America went...

[Annotator’s Note: Video and sound is very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

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