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Claude Bufford Shaw didn't come immediately back to the United States when the war ended as he was making a career of...

Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that he wanted to join the Navy because he wanted to fight like the rest of his friends. He...

Jake Ussery was born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas which is a small town north of Little Rock. His mother's parents lived...

Frederick Jenkins thought it was hard to get organized. He had a school teacher as his company commander during boot...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

Between graduating from college and beginning the program at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...

One day, Jack Yusen heard his name called and he was ordered to report to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). Yusen and...

James Paul Lynch had a wonderful experience on the Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)]. They had fine officers...

Norman Sterrie participated in the Battle of Coral Sea on 7 and 8 May. [Annotator's Note: 7 and 8 May 1942. Sterrie was...

Following his liberation [Annotator's Note: from a Japanese prisoner of war camp], Howard Robert Charles arrived by air...

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