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Jean D. "JD" Johnson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285) enjoyed free time at Brisbane [Annotator's...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

Elmer Koenig was born in July 1925 in Santa Ana, California. His older sister died in 1918. He grew up in Orange [...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was born in...

Chester Hollingsworth was born on a farm in October 1917 near Greenville, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters....

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

Ernest Barber was born in September 1924 in rural Mississippi with three brothers and one sister while his father...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

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