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Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

While in the Java Sea after sinking a ship, another Japanese ship tried to sink the USS Blenny (SS-324). The crew then...

Robert Addison was born in Akron, Ohio in December 1922. Growing up he was very athletic and played many different...

Tenney didn't feel that three rations of rice a day, at about four and a half ounces a ration, was good. He felt it was...

Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

Richard Miralles left the squadron and went aboard the ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75)] as a radioman...

David Heath served on Guadalcanal for six months and ten days. He had a colonel that was sent back to Camp Lejeune [...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

A few weeks after the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942], Leon Williamson returned to Ewa [...

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