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Rollins Rosenzweig had a rough boot camp experience in San Diego. He did not complain but rather took it as it came. It...

Deen recalls thinking how lucky he was that he was not killed on the first day [Annotators Note: 15 September 1944 on...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] After serving in the Navy for 20 years, Wallace...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Griffith was guarding the Florida Keys as a member of the 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Robert Beynon what it was like to go out and come back from patrols on a...

George Colburn only heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor]. He was just a Private and...

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

Ari Phoutrides's only thought of that day [Annotator's Note: a kamikaze attack on 15 to 16 April 1945] was that it was...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

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

After completing the Navy basic training program, William Hill was enrolled in the University of Chicago [Annotator’s...

Edward Allesandro said that most people are surprised to hear that the Coast Guard was fighting in World War 2. The USS...

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