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Francis Borrell was woken up early one morning and was told about the Japanese surrendering. Everyone was celebrating,...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Ray Eshelman had been on USS LST-925 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts, before reporting aboard USS...

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

James Gaffney got into trouble in Cartagena [Annotator’s Note: Cartagena, Colombia]. Some of the crew was driven in a...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

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