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Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...

Morton William Werner returned to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and then took a train to...

After World War 2, William C. Ellzey remained in the Navy until 1961. He was assigned to the USS Forrestal (CV-59) in...

Otis Kight was participating in flight operations when the Japanese attacked Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (...

Paul Dietzel flew from the Hawaiian Islands over Kwajalein to Tinian. During the flight they had not had anything to...

Nick Cristiano was born in July 1925. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. There were great schools. His father owned a...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

Robert Philips landed across Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] the first week in August [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Malcolm Louis Holleman was in the infantry...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Bailey was assigned to unloading ships. When he wasn't unloading ships he was walking around. He couldn't stay still....

Otis Kight and others volunteered for the salvage party to return to Yorktown [Annotator's Note: the USS Yorktown (CV-5...

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