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Edward Kissam was assigned to a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], the SS Thomas...

Hartsel Ross's most memorable experience of World War 2 was losing his convoy in fog while sailing in the North Sea. He...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Scott Campbell what he thinks the significance of having The National WWII...

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

James Crane experienced a great change in the Merchant Marine. He was concerned about making the first convoy, but he...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Kissam was in the US Merchant Marine aboard the SS Thomas Nelson Page. When he returned from...

John Scott Campbell was born in August 1926 in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved from there to Texas. His father was in the...

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....

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