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James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Vernon Micheel was born and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college in Ames [Annotator's Note: Ames, Iowa] and...

At the end of the war, James Thomas Womack was in the process of being transferred off the USS Rehobath (AVP-50) to...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

In the first days of June [Annotator's Note: June 1942], Donald Hoff and his fellow airmen were getting nervous,...

John E. Johnson was born in Houston, Mississippi in December 1926, and lived there until he was six years old. During...

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