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Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Charles Struble remembers planes [Annotator's Note: of the 421st Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, 20th...

The next morning, 5 June [Annotator's Note: 5 June 1942], Fred Bergeron had breakfast then went to his plane. When they...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout this segment.] After a long wait, Rawley R....

William Lee Barnes was born in December 1926 in Cottondale, Florida. He started school in Saint Andrews, Florida but...

Thomas Francis Schicker was told he was ready to go overseas. At Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps...

In the early 1930s when the Japanese invaded Manchuria then moved into China, Ralph Weymouth’s group was being pushed...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] headed to the Philippines,...

In Providence, Rhode Island, Edward Driscoll joined the newly formed Torpedo Squadron 13 [Annotator's Note: Torpedo...

Otis Kight grew up near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and nearby Stone Mountain [Annotator's Note: Stone...

When on attack, Robert Dickinson was usually at the helm or on one of the bow or stern planes. When on the surface, he...

William Goldsborough served during World War 2 because he had no choice; there was a draft and he had to go "at the...

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