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Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. As a result of the war, his father realized his dream...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams joined the Marine Corps on 17 March 1943. He trained at San Diego [Annotator's Note: US...

Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

James Morehead was born in August 1916 in Peoli, Oklahoma, the youngest of four children in a family that worked a farm...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...

Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...

Following stateside training, Rollins Rosenzweig was assigned to the Bunker Hill [Annotator's Note: USS Bunker Hill (CV...

The morning that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Robert Philips landed across Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] the first week in August [Annotator's...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was born in August 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. His father owned a sheet metal business and...

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

Glen Kuskie had just made it to shore after surviving a Hell ship that was sunk by the Americans. [Annotator's Note:...

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