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Calvin Barrick thinks that Dick O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard H. O'Kane was the commanding...

Shortly after the attack on the ammunition ship at Darwin, Australia, Richard Micklich [Annotator’s Note: serving as a...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

Floyd James Reissig was drafted in May 1944. He was allowed to choose his service after his physical. He was not...

Carl Trim says the tensest time on any trip at sea was when the captain would call everyone to general quarters [...

Loren Bennett was born in October 1927 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He did not have any siblings....

[Annotator's Note: Video and sound freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk was born in Chicago, Illinois in June...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade does not know how World War 2 changed him. After he left the service, he wanted to go back to...

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] On 10...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was a member of Company A, 6th Ranger Battalion and took part in the Raid at...

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