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Lowell Rodrigue [Annotator's Note: after joining the crew of the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] headed north to Kiska in the...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

Emil Kesselman’s discharge date was set for August 1950 and he went home to New York, and to work at Brillo [Annotator’...

Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking Harlan Twible to describe the USS Indianapolis (CA-...

James Paul Lynch's skipper [Annotator's Note: his captain, aboard the USS Snook (SS-279)], Chuck Triebel [Annotator's...

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

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Clyde Barber was a member of Patrol Squadron 11 (VP-11) which flew PBYs [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina]...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

[Annotator's Note: Someone off camera interjects at various points.] As his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Suwannee (...

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