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Carl Trim was born in Greenville, Mississippi in September 1926. His parents divorced soon after and Trim and his...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Nimocks Foyle Ladner already in conversation with the interviewer.] Ladner...

William Earl Gast remembers the first time he changed into new clothes. He was staying in a house and slept in the...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the people in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] were very...

Raymond Loidolt took a Navy destroyer back to the United States from China. They went through mines [Annotator's Note:...

John DuBose reached his new ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Bostonian] and was immediately given lifeboat training. He...

After John Votrobeck graduated, he took a train through Omaha, [Annotator's Note: Omaha, Nebraska] and on 20 April [...

Vaughn Whitworth remembers celebrating V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He felt that...

Earnest did get his eight landings in. The next time he was going to be making a landing he was on the Saratoga [...

Ray Dennis Irby went into his first invasion, and he will never forget it. He hit the ground. The sergeant was walking...

Jake Ussery boarded the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] in the United States and joined in operations...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

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