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Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

[Annotator's Note: Orville Bethard served as an Electrician’s Mate aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63) which was sunk during...

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

After the war, Clyde Barber remained in the Navy as a member of a naval transport squadron, VR-8 (Air Transport...

Fred Bronfin was sent back [Annotator's Note: back to the United States] for more radar training and teaching at Saint...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee’s wife interjects throughout this clip.] Sherwin Lansing Eddy readjusted to civilian...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

Shortly after Frederick Ellis reached Japan and the point system was in place for sending them home. The points got...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. During his overseas...

Clarence Robert Duff remembered that during World War 2, his ship rode out three typhoons. The last one was in December...

Archie Kelley went to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after graduating from the United States...

Kenneth Theis [Annotator’s Note: Supply and Disbursement Officer aboard the USS Manlove (DE-36)] was part of a giant...

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