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Ralph Burch thought seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was memorable when he was in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San...

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

Stinson was born in Columbia, Alabama. After he and his classmates graduated from high school in 1943 they joined the...

Charles Bruce was on the USS Lander (APA-178). Their job was to haul men and equipment wherever they needed to go. They...

Robert Swan and three other guys in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44)] rented a house. Each...

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

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Noah Lewis thinks the white servicemen were promoted to better positions than their black counterparts. He knows in the...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

The Chandler [Annotator's Note: USS Chandle (DD-206)] had 4 stacks and had torpedo tubes and 4 inch guns. Baptiste...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan], Adolfo V. Celaya...

The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

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