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Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe. He trained in a small...

Arles E. Cole was sent to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for naval aptitude testing and training....

Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...

Norman Sterrie has come to view Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942] as an important...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

On the way to China, the ship Raymond Loidolt was on ran into a hurricane [Annotator's Note: typhoon]. The ship was...

After Willie D. Knippers completed his medical field training at Camp Barkeley, Texas, he was sent to California for...

The day the affair took place [Annotator's Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19-20 June 1944] they had not had...

John Reeder remained on active duty, and was sent to the Naval Air Station at Mojave, California for a month, then...

When Phineas Stevens left Leyte Gulf [Annotator's Note: Battle of Leyte, Philippines, 17 October to 26 December 1944]...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...

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