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James "Jimmy" Elam Newsom was born in Oakland, Louisiana in 1921. He grew up and lived in Louisiana until the war...

When Edmund Aziz was assigned to a ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156)] and he installed a public address...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] was stationed at Shanghai [Annotator's Note: Shanghai...

Rufus Harris was born in 1923 in Macon, Georgia. He lived there for four years and then they moved to New Orleans [...

Louis B. Hutchinson was born in November 1925 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

James Ramage was at Pearl Harbor when the Battle of Midway took place. He was not aboard ship at the time. The...

The USS New Orleans [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS New Orleans, CA32] was a sister ship to the San...

William O’Brien was on duty in the Philippines. They kept their equipment ready. The ammunition was ready to go on the...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

After Baptiste left the Solomons he was sent to new construction. He was sent to the hospital because he lost his...

John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...

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