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After getting back to the United States [Annotator’s Note: after surviving the sinking of the USS Preston (DD-379) in...

Hopkins was the 33rd plane to take off. It was the 1st time that Hopkins took off carrying a live bomb. After he took...

James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen where he was when the atomic bombs were dropped on...

Norman Sterrie was born and raised in the small town of St. James, Minnesota. After high school graduation, he worked...

The first couple times Arthur Killam was depth charged it was a little hairy but he does not recall getting too upset...

From the Aleutians, Mark Brannon and the USS Hutchins (DD-746) went back to Hawaii then on to Port Moresby in Papua New...

Describing PT-371 [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat], Richard McEwen said that it had a big "day room" up front,...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] During his service in the...

Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

They started taking off the most severely wounded. Another APD [Annotator's Note: a destroyer or destroyer escort...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. was assigned to the USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) tanker. Most individuals were wary of serving on...

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