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There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...

One memorable experience that came to mind for William Beaman was when his submarine, the USS Flasher (SS-249), sank...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson enlisted in the Navy and was sent to a ship in the Hudson River to train on. He was supposed...

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

Douglas Holmes Blair was born in December 1925 in Roseburg, Oregon with one brother and a half-brother. Both of his...

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

Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...

Emmett Guderian's Navy career gave him all kinds of new experiences, from world travel to intense emotions. He...

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

Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...

James W. Metcalf was assigned as a turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). When...

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