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When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....

Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. The major missions of the ship were...

The draft board sent William Nesser a notice to report. He disregarded it, because he had his time in [Annotator's Note...

After his last trip on a ship, John Scott Campbell got married. They were married for 46 years. Jobs were hard. The...

Ralph Crump [Annotators Note: For the first 22:26 of this interview the interviewer and interviewee chat about family...

Of all the ports Woods visited he liked Panama the best because it was like being back at home. There was a good...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. He doesn't recall the cargo on his first trip...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Nesser about why he was not part of the Murmansk run PQ-17, an Atlantic...

John Scott Campbell says that Westbrook Pegler [Annotator's Note: Francis James Westbrook Pegler, American journalist...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

After Erik Johnsen graduated from his final training at Kings Point, [Annotator's Note: US Merchant Marine Academy,...

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