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Merrill was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga, CV-3] both times she was torpedoed.When they left...

Thomas Kolesa was born in July 1924. He married at 18 and had three children. He is originally from Illinois and moved...

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in...

Leslie B. Mason, Junior was on MP [Annotator's Note: military police] duty for a while and then became a jailer [...

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. He doesn't recall the cargo on his first trip...

Thomas Lusco Sr. remembers that at night, there were dogfights between the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51...

Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch...

Arthur Fishman is a World War 2 Navy veteran. He had three sons and several grandchildren, and his wife passed away. He...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell’s most...

Edwin Henlebin became interested in the activities of a photographer who was taking shots of an open air, 24 hour mess...

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