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After the clean-up of Pearl Harbor, John Cassidy chose to stay in the Pacific on the USS Vincennes (CA-44) which...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells Marthe Cohn that she is going to switch to asking the American Spirit Award...

By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...

James Joseph Bollich was born in August 1921 south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

After the Japanese surrendered, James Stewart Rosenbaum thought he would be heading home, but he and his unit [...

Loren Bennett went to boot camp at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois]....

Richard Keller had a good friend from Alabama who was a funny guy. He received different training than Keller had...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Clarence Lee "Jack" Dobbs was still on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] when the atomic bombs were...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

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