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Rollins Rosenzweig had a rough boot camp experience in San Diego. He did not complain but rather took it as it came. It...

William Currier's first seagoing engagement was aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) as part of a task group that escorted...

Paul Kerchum returned to the United States after being a prisoner of war to the Japanese for four years. His ship...

During the war, Aaron Baumgarten worried less about meeting up with the Japanese than he was of coming to a bad end...

John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...

Milton Rackham was born in Riggs, Idaho in April 1925 and grew up in nearby Rigby. [Annotator’s Note: Internet...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

[Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th...

Bailey had a picture of himself with a flamethrower on his back. It was taken while he was waiting to go free one of...

When Donald Hoff's pilot [Annotator's Note: US Navy Ensign J.C. Dexter] pulled up from his dive, he pulled up so hard...

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