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Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Werner what in his childhood in Austria made him what he is today and...

Benjamin Albert Glusing lived near some hills that blocked the nearby city [Annotator's Note: Magenta, New Caledonia]....

Charles Wesley Borders served for about two months in the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1943. He and five others were sent...

Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Robert Beynon what it was like to be aboard a submarine being attacked with...

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

Floyd James Reissig was hit by shrapnel from one of his own guns. While they were firing, the shrapnel hit him, causing...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

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