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The next morning Alexander Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

[Annotator's Notes: There is some chit chat between the interviewer and interviewee before the interview begins.]...

Joseph LaNier exited San Francisco toward Pearl Harbor. Everything that LaNier saw when he went into the Navy was new...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

Thomas Tizzard was aboard the USS Denver (CL-58) when it went into dry dock to be repaired after being torpedoed. The...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

James Warren David explains how the LCVPs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP] loaded up troops...

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

Victor K. Carman wanted to become an electronics engineer. While he was at the Great Lakes Naval Base [Annotator's Note...

Coming back to the United States was kind of boring for Robert D. Shaner. They [Annotator's Note: Shaner and the crew...

Austin H. Kiplinger went to Anacostia Naval Air Station [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Anacostia...

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