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In May 1943, Paul Lawrence had technically been the Navy for one year. While at school, he waited tables. Lawrence was...

Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

Charles Nathan Lane’s first battle was in the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: as part of the 197th Coast Artillery...

Dale Bates was born in Salem, Oregon in January 1924. Bates’ father worked in the banking industry and, as such, the...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Raymond Gimbut joined the crew of the Selfridge [Annotator's Note: USS Selfridge (DD-357)]. He thought it was a good...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

It took them 12 days to get back to California [Annotator's Note: returning from Japan after the war]. Emmett Kaylor...

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