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Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Charles Brooks would have breakfast before dawn onboard the ship. He would then look to see his assignment for the day...

Ralph Burch thought seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was memorable when he was in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San...

Asked about offloading reinforcements for the Army's 27th Division [Annotator's Note: 27th Infantry Division] at...

John Caudle did not have a lot of notice when he was called to active duty. He came home after work one Friday and had...

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] On 10...

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

After Orville Bethard went aboard ship [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] they went to Australia where...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy as an Electricians Mate aboard the submarine USS Sea Dragon.]...

James Wilson did not see the bullets coming when he got shot [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of the Tenaru River,...

After completing the Navy basic training program, William Hill was enrolled in the University of Chicago [Annotator’s...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

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