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Irvin C. Klimas was in boot camp for six weeks. After boot camp, he had a ten day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Paul Rothenheber was excited to be back home. He smoked alot of cigarettes at the time. When he would go home, he gave...

Annotator’s Note: there is a person assisting the interviewee with answering Interviewer’s questions throughout the...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Joseph Hartmann was shipped back to England. They were going to be court-martialed and do their time in England. The...

Theodore Vallas was born in March 1921 in a small town in Idaho [Annotator's Note: Pocatello, Idaho]. His father died...

William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

Fred Arthur Balfour was told to find his own way on board [Annotator's Note: after the war ended and arriving at his...

Bob Bartlett graduated from Navy boot camp and then attended corpsman [Annotator's Note: enlisted medical specialist in...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] They...

Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

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