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Fred Bronfin adjusted easily to military life but felt he was losing time in his career. To differentiate between...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

William Jackson was first sent to Miami Beach [Annotator's Note: Miami Beach, Florida] following his induction. He...

Bruce McCormick was in the military for a long time. A lot of his friends who were soldiers in Korea [Annotator's Note...

Being a submariner prepared Billy Grieves for his career as a firefighter. After seeing the worst, everything else is...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...

Leo Denault was discharged on 10 March 1946. He came back on a troop carrier ship. It took seven days. It was awful. He...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Smith where he was when he heard the news of the atomic bombs being...

Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a 1st class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion] was on a ship...

From looking at the maps the 2 men discovered that the maps showed the same coastline, but the distances and everything...

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