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Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

James "Jimmy" Elam Newsom was born in Oakland, Louisiana in 1921. He grew up and lived in Louisiana until the war...

Edward Bruce Jennings was born in December 1924 in Port Arthur, Texas. At his age, children did not worry about the...

Because of the war, those that survived were probably better off. They could get a job if they were willing to work.It...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Robert Beynon what it was like to be aboard a submarine being attacked with...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

Ralph Marcarelli reacted badly to inoculations when he entered the Navy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He missed boot...

One day in late 1945 Allen Tillery was called in to the office of the colonel and informed that his application for the...

Ralph Marcarelli saw nothing but jungle when he landed at Milne Bay, New Guinea. He came from the city to the jungle....

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

On 19 February [Annotator' Note: 19 February 1945], Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the...

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