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Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

John Nicholas was a Seaman 2nd Class deck hand when he went aboard the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)]....

James Warren David believed that World War 2 was a patriotic war and people were very positive at the time. The war...

Philip Curran and his family talked about the impending war developments all the time. His grandfather was an avid...

While off the coast of Washington state, there were large logs floating in the water. Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade tried...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Marvin Tyson was in Little Creek, Virginia [Annotator's Note: Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, now Joint...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Annotator’s Note: Video and sound are very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

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