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[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson was born in April 1925 in Taft...

In 1964, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19) for the third time as the officer electrician....

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade was sent to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. By this time, it was near the end...

David Hanning says the goal of the program was to train interpreters to act as a translator between the American...

Merrill was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga, CV-3] both times she was torpedoed.When they left...

Edward Chinnis and his fellow sailors hated the Japanese even after the war ended. Chinnis was on occupation duty for...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note:...

On Raymond Birdsall's [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific]...

Claude Bufford Shaw was in the Navy from July 1938 until his discharge in 1972, when he retired at the rank of Captain...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

On 18 August 1944, Frederick Grun left the United States on the HMS Empire Mace along with 200 enlisted men, a number...

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