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After he had joined the Navy, it was a shock for Ben Ray Bost to leave home and get into uniform. Everything was free...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

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

After he was discharged, Thomas Tizzard looked for a job. He worked in New Orleans, Louisiana as a conductor on a...

John Nicholas was born in Marysville, Michigan in December 1924. He grew up in Marysville with his half brother and...

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

Joseph Daquana was born in Plaquemines, Louisiana in May 1928. He was the second youngest child in a family of seven...

On the 8th [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1942, the second day of the Battle of Coral Sea], Norman Sterrie knew it was going...

Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

Connick was born in Mobile, Alabama on 27 March 1926. He moved with his family to New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

William Roy was on the USS Yorktown [Annotator's Note: CV-5] when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Yorktown was at Pier 7...

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