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When on attack, Robert Dickinson was usually at the helm or on one of the bow or stern planes. When on the surface, he...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman during his service in World War 2. When the...

Rollins Rosenzweig was part of the aircraft carrier naval air cover for the invasion of Iwo Jima. [Annotator's Note:...

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

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

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

Louis Andriano was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the war ended. There were no newspapers aboard...

Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

By the night of 5 August [Annotator’s Note: 1945], Paul J. Murphy had been in the sea for five nights and four days [...

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