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Sherman Vangrov was born in March 1927 in Dayton, Ohio, but moved around the county because his mother was ill. He...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

James Crane was waiting for D-Day in the war zone. They knew it was coming but did not know when. They had departed New...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Kissam was serving in the US Marine Corps as a navigator on cargo planes in China after the...

A neighbor of John Scott Campbell's had gone to sea. He would come home and tell sea stories and that sounded good....

Sherman Vangrov served on the SS William D. Pender as a Merchant Marine during the last months of World War 2. His ship...

Crump was able to get a gold crown in his teeth and was able to join. This was in late 1943. Crump was told then that...

James Crane’s brother was taken prisoner by the Germans [Annotator’s Note: after being shot down over the Ploesti...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Kissam returned from the war and had a lot of family problems to deal with.]. Kissam did use...

John Scott Campbell's duties were complicated but simple. On a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly...

Maxwell Nelson was born in October 1921 in Covington County, Alabama and grew up in the town of Andalusia. The youngest...

Crump and the Chief Engineer had done some work when the seas were calm. The Chief Engineer felt that there was a...

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