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Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson was born in Bronson, Florida in December 1927. He had five brothers and sisters. His father, an...

The talk among the men about their home life was very interesting and mostly wholesome, according to Richard McEwen. He...

When the ship arrived, F. Lincoln Grahlfs went out to sea for ten months. The ship was a patrol craft. After the...

Wallace McKay did have bad feelings towards the Japanese. He married a Canadian woman. He was concerned about the Nazis...

James Gaffney experienced no problems with leaks on his PT Boat. The boat construction was tight enough that it did not...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

Jack Holder was born in December 1921 in his mother’s hometown of Gunter, Texas. His father was a World War 1 veteran,...

Arles E. Cole missed breakfast and woke a few minutes before eight o’clock in the morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a...

John E. Johnson described accommodations on the APD [Annotator's Note: Johnson served aboard the high speed transport...

As a pilot in VB-6 [Annotator's Note: Bombing Squadron 6 (VB-6)], Tony Schneider sailed aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Billy Grieves talks about the eulogies he gives for friends who have passed away. He has officiated a number of...

David Hanning says the goal of the program was to train interpreters to act as a translator between the American...

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