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Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Raymond “Ray” Parrotta was born in Rochester, New York in May 1927. His father worked with a railroad company, and...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Myron J. Carraway was born in Idaho [Annotator’s Note: in Jackson, Idaho in March 1922] and grew up there. He graduated...

Baptiste went to the Customs House [Annotators Note: in New Orleans] on 5 February 1938 where he was selected with 6...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Murphy Burke had a lot of respect for the Japanese; he thought they were good soldiers, and did their job with the few...

Adolfo V. Celaya heard men who seemed to know each other [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...

Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

After enlisting in the Navy, John St. Germain had his boot camp training in Farragut, Idaho [Annotator’s Note: Farragut...

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