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In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

Allen Horton reported aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), and a fellow Princeton acquaintance helped him settle into...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

Vernon Micheel was born and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college in Ames [Annotator's Note: Ames, Iowa] and...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

David Harvey would be assigned liberty depending on what side of the ship he was on, port or starboard. Passes were...

Frank George Memory worked mainly with the officers [Annotator’s Note: Memory was assistant navigator aboard the USS...

Donald Stratton went to Corona, California towards the end of 1942. He was there for a couple months before he was...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...

James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....

Irwin Schneider was changed by the war completely. He had led a sheltered life prior to his service. He learned to be a...

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