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Gerald Rupert was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and grew up about 40 miles south of there [Annotator's Note: in South...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Dye served in the Navy aboard USS LSM-232.] There were 60 men and 6 officers on their crew....

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

After World War 2, Sam S. McKeel was assigned as quartermaster on LST-492 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank]. He...

When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...

Gerald Kynett returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], where he was held up for some time....

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster's most memorable experience of World War 2 was hearing the news of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

In April 1940, Jack Holder enlisted in the Navy and completed bootcamp in San Diego, California. Boot camp was...

Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

William Roy captured film of Japanese bombers attacking the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] that was not...

[Annotator’s Note: chit chat for the first 13 seconds of the interview] Robert Brant was born 10 October 1924 in Denver...

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