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Cecil N. Duck served in the Navy until 1949, then worked for a company in Pensacola, Florida before enlisting in the...

Robert "Bob" Lowry had about 200 or 300 soldiers they [Annotator's Note: as crew on the USS LST-538 in Plymouth,...

Robert "Bob" Lowry and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-538] finally got beached and dropped out of the convoy [...

Paul Rothenheber went to Rhode Island for a six week boot camp. He did alot of marching and took many classes. He was...

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...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

Joseph Hartmann did nine to 12 months of duty. The battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) was being commissioned. They all...

The duration of a typical watch for Robert Fitz was two hours, except in the places like the Arctic, where it was so...

John A. McCarthy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His family moved to Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. He was...

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

Anthony Bianconi [Annotator's Note: a musician and ammunition loader on the cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41)] was...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was taking part in Operation Tiger, or Exercise Tiger, April 1944, preparing for the D-...

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