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Donald Herbert Shown picked up a lifejacket from the grouping he found in nets on the boat deck [Annotator’s Note:...

[Annotator's Note: A different interviewer begins asking Selwyn Gilmore questions about his postwar career.] Selwyn...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was serving stateside near the war's end. He was assigned to shore patrol in Hollywood [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

Donald Herbert Shown was with a doctor, chaplain and Marine captain who swam around trying to take care of the wounded...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore if his meeting a variety of types of people in the service...

Michael Mervosh kept his binoculars in his pack the rest of the battle and he is thankful that he did. About a week...

Gerald West spent 1944 in an OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, the pre-runner of the CIA] training...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

John E. Johnson went aboard the USS Liddle (ADP-60) in New York in September 1944, and sailed through the Panama Canal...

Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

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