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Paul Ignatius’ most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting through it, surviving and coming out to lead a...

Joseph LaNier did not know what he would do after the service. He was reserve and not regular Army. Consequently, his...

Earnest tried to get a lead on the cruiser so he could drop his torpedo [Annotators Note: after being hit during the...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

Back in the United States, the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) went into dry dock, and Lebow went to Texas on leave [Annotator...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

Paul J. Frisco enlisted in the Navy because of his father's service during World War 1 and because of the Navy's...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

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