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[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...

Francis Bucher was born in October 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His was a friendly neighborhood where everybody knew...

George Mouton's oldest brother was drafted. The second oldest brother was in submarines. The third brother was in the...

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

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Joseph Fisher went back to college after he returned home. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or...

Noah Lewis remembers the people on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] were friendly towards black people....

William C. Ellzey was born in September 1922 in Agricola, Mississippi. The oldest of nine children, he grew up on a 40-...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

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