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David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

Crump was able to get a gold crown in his teeth and was able to join. This was in late 1943. Crump was told then that...

Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...

Harold Whitaker and a few friends went up to San Francisco in the summer of 1945 and joined the Merchant Marine. They...

By the time Harold Whitaker made his first voyage carrying grain to North Africa the war in Europe was over so there...

Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine and served on Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of cargo ship...

After separation from the service, David R. Saunders did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill. Saunders' most memorable...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

Crump and the Chief Engineer had done some work when the seas were calm. The Chief Engineer felt that there was a...

David Yoho was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in August 1928 and grew up in the inner city. He had two sisters....

After high school, Harold Whitaker was bumming around and getting trouble until his mother and a family friend...

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