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Robert Martin was taught to march and thought it was stupid [Annotator's Note: in US Navy basic training]. They went to...

[Annotator's Note: Curt Simmons served in the Navy in the Armed Guard as a gunner aboard merchant ships in the North...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer received his discharge orders on 10 December 1945 while on occupation duty in Kagoshima...

Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...

Fred Arthur Balfour went into service in 1944. He went to Electrician Mate's school in Bainbridge, New York. They...

Most people do not remember anything and it [Annotator's Note: World War 2] is foreign to them. Charlie Lomax does not...

William Leo Spaetgens and his Navy crewmates aboard the SS Leslie M. Shaw (MC-0440) converted their Liberty Ship to a...

Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

William Cassady [Annotator’s Note: serving aboard the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] remembers the ship behind them...

Alois Kopp enlisted in the Navy in September 1937 despite the fact he could not swim. He learned fast. He volunteered...

Jack Raskoph was not much help in the radio room. He was a Radioman 3rd Class. His channel was operated by the British...

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

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