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John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe. He trained in a small...

They went directly into Ormoc Bay [Annotator's Note: Philippines]. Once the troops landed the kamikazes started to...

While Richard Bennett was in New Orleans, he met a local in a tavern who offered him and a buddy dinner and lodging for...

Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

Loren Bennett went to boot camp at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois]....

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was quickly released from the Navy after the war and attended college on the G.I. Bill [...

Buck Donaldson had to be able to tell the difference between Morse code sounds [Annotator’s Note: Morse code is a...

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] "PB"...

When they [Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen and the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)] arrived at Pearl Harbor the men looked...

Carey Suratt worked on the hospital ship about three weeks and was then transferred to the LST-452 [Annotator's Note:...

After returning to his carrier, Norman Kleiss got a cup of coffee and prepared for his next flight. About that time a...

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