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In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow was born in 1925 [Annotator’s Note: he grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. His father worked on...

Joseph Hartmann was in the "52-20 club" [Annotator's Note: a government-funded program that paid unemployed veterans 20...

Theodore Vallas joined the Navy in 1939 when students in college were being prepared to go to the anticipated war....

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Harold Beal wanted to go into the Navy because he got around his father’s boat quite well. He was in the Navy for four...

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was assigned to the Tank Landing Ship, USS LST-502 for the invasion of Europe.] Because...

Alois Kopp was a pharmacist's mate aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) prior to its sinking. He was captured by the Japanese...

Wesley John Dochick was born in December 1920 in New Britain, Connecticut. He had one brother and three sisters, and a...

Nicholas J. Zuras obtained binoculars in Weymouth [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England]. The wooden decks of the boats...

It was during the Great Depression that Milton Muelder and his brother went to Germany to study in 1930 and 1931. At...

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