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Richard Baile was given a rigid physical which was going well until they gave him the color blind test again. This time...

Starnes has thought about the night the USS Boise ambushed the Tokyo Express many times. He had a sense of apprehension...

Fred Bronfin reported to Fort Schuyler in New York where he had a two month indoctrination. He was then sent to Norfolk...

William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart graduated flight training then was sent to Naval Auxiliary Air Station Miramar, in San...

1 day a train loaded with bomb shells came into the camp and as it came through the camp a routine safety check found a...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Connelly if any memories stand out in particular for him.] They ate C...

After boot camp, Norman Elliott was assigned to a newly-commissioned ship, the USS Pasadena (CL-65). From the Boston...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Jeremiah “Jerry” O’Keefe found training intense. After preflight school at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells Marthe Cohn that she is going to switch to asking the American Spirit Award...

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