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[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus left [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Merchant Marine ship. Once they were...

William Lee Barnes was born in December 1926 in Cottondale, Florida. He started school in Saint Andrews, Florida but...

Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith's oldest brother, John Joseph, whose nickname was "Jody", enlisted in the Navy prior...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

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

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

David Dawson was born in October 1924 in Tampa, Florida. They moved to Gary, Indiana when he was two years old. His...

Windom Joseph Burton went to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)]....

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

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

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