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Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was born in August 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in nearby Metairie. His father was...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

Buck Donaldson could handle the movie machine. They took the troops from San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez became a lawyer after the war. In Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam War, or Second Indochina...

The USS Honolulu (CL-48) went back to San Francisco and Ray Emory was heading for Melbourne, Australia three or four...

Warren Huggins went back to the Philippines and then went to Kobe [Annotator’s Note: Kobe, Japan]. Then he went back to...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk's first combat experience was at...

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

Hugh Wingo attended boot camp for eight weeks. They got their first liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

Walter Nelson was only 19 years old at the time [Annotators Note: at the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea]. The USS...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

The Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)] had torpedo problems on most of her runs. Billy Grieves kept an...

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