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Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

When James Shelton Scales was promoted to captain and given his own company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion...

The ship went into the Atlantic. Vejtasa's ship met up with the Ranger, CV-4 [Annotator's Note: USS Ranger (CV-4)]....

Erik Johnsen's training in the US Merchant Marine at Henderson Point, Mississippi was very similar to that of a raw...

After the war, Robert S. Gibbs told his boss he was getting married, and he asked for a raise. His pay went up to 200...

The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Carrel Reavis where he thinks the Montford Point Marines fit into the Civil...

Robert Hilton Cahoon was born in Chunky, Mississippi in October 1921. Cahoon liked school, but school was only for...

Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...

Frank Lloyd Pryor was born in Wilson, Oklahoma in January 1926. His father worked as a telegraph operator for a...

After the war ended with Japan [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945], Walter Guyote made a few trips to Japan [Annotator’s...

Fred Bronfin was had mixed feelings about leaving the Navy. In the service everything was taken care of for him. In the...

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