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Fred Gemmel is proud to have served on the Laffey [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)]. He did not realize it...

He was asleep in his bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, CA38] early in the morning of...

Dale Peterson served on two different cruisers, the USS San Diego (CL-53) and the USS San Juan (CL-54). His battle...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman if the Navy changed between World War 2 and the Korean War.]...

[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

Martin Suter was sent to Colgate University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York], where he took part a pilot...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

Fred Bronfin was sent back [Annotator's Note: back to the United States] for more radar training and teaching at Saint...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

Oral History