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Austin H. Kiplinger was aboard the USS Altamaha [Annotator's Note: USS Altamaha (CVE-18) and did anti-submarine...

James Gaffney experienced no problems with leaks on his PT Boat. The boat construction was tight enough that it did not...

Richard Bennett mentioned that one incident stands out as a proud moment. Out of the 15 PT boats in the squadron [...

Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke was born in November 1925 in Wellington, Kansas and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. His father had...

When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....

When readying for nuclear test, Paul Sparacino and the crew [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS...

Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...

Howard Robert Charles was born in Picher, Oklahoma. With environmental issues there, the mines were closed. His father...

Ralph Burch remembers they had to be out on watch. [Annotator’s Note: The video starts to have audio problems.] He...

Marion Labauve went to Avondale Shipyard [Annotator's Note: in Bridge City, Louisiana] after the war. It was dangerous...

The ship would reposition at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands]. Occasionally, Japanese planes...

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