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

Joe Clapper was born in Jonesboro, Indiana, but grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He joined the Marine Corps just out of...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a Navy fighter pilot in World War 2] belongs to an association called the...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] After recruit training, George...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Frederick Jenkins thinks the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana] is important...

Charles Chartier returned to the United States around Christmas of 1946. The trip home was a lot shorter than the trip...

G.I.s from John Smith's Battery B, 61st Field Artillery were transferred to form C Battery 271st Field Artillery...

John Mikus, Jr. took a ship zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] across [Annotator's Note:...

Myers was discharged from the Navy as a Seamen Last-Class [Annotator's Note: either apprentice seaman or seaman 2nd...

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