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Morris Semiatin was born in June 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland. He knew in the late 1930s that there was war going on. He...

Living aboard the USS Enterprise was tough. Feightner slept in a hammock under a 5 inch gun mount. Other pilots bunked...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about Nasugbu, Philippines.] They came out of Luzon [...

Alfred Dearman was born in June 1930 in Abilene, Texas. He was an orphan who was adopted at three days old by an older...

William Lutz liked boot camp because he got a rifle. He liked the firing range. He became a gunner after basic training...

Albert Simon went to school until to the seventh grade. He had to go to work on the farm in the third grade. He had to...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it was announced that the war was over. He...

Lloyd Dendy went from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] to Oahu, Hawaii to the old Camp Catlin which...

[Annotator's Note: Archibald Rackerby was wounded by friendly fire while training on Guadalcanal on 9 March 1944.]...

Peter Gallo was involved in an incident that got him into trouble in Korea. A Japanese officer came in and was chasing...

James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

In June 1947 Walter Bank went from Japan to the United States and joined the Navy reserves in New York for the benefits...

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