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A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

Garland Bath can only say the government spent a lot on him, he learned a lot of stuff, and spent a lot of time at sea...

Marvin Martin [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 3475th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company] was sent to a...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...

Vernon Henry Moret was born in June 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. [Annotator's Note:...

When Orville Bethard graduated from high school he was 19 years old and eligible for the draft. He did not like the...

In 1954, John Kreutzberg was drafted once more, this time into the Army. He was married at the time, so his wife went...

DeMers met her and they danced, talked, and had a good time [Annotators Note: his future wife after returning to the...

Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] to join an accelerated Navy officer...

[Annotator's Note: Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen served in the Navy and was assigned to Pier 92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in...

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