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John DuBose had eight months of back pay when he departed the SS Frenchtown. He was concerned that he would be robbed...

William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

On the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), Pete Brock saw combat in the late stages of the Okinawa campaign [Annotator’s...

Keith Renstrom and Amagony [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling; on Iwo Jima] looked at each other and gave each other...

Patrick Zilliacus corresponded with his family. It was censored twice but he corresponded throughout the war with his...

Ray Dennis Irby turned 17 in 1941. He was in the backyard of his home in Meridian [Annotator's Note: Meridian,...

The military taught Richard Baile discipline. It also gave him another education. The combination of his college...

Harold Whitaker and a few friends went up to San Francisco in the summer of 1945 and joined the Merchant Marine. They...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell’s most...

Vejtasa doesn't know of anyone being lost during the attack. The farther away they got from the scene, the worse the...

James Paul Lynch says the FM radar [Annotator's Note: or FM sonar, high-frequency, short-range sonar using frequency...

Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

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