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Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Robert "Bob" Lowry was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1926. He had three...

David Foerster was in the Azores when the war ended in Europe and Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

After several months of training, Ernest Barber was sent to Charleston, South Carolina and assigned to the USAHS [...

Edward Thomas Toole thought transitioning to the Army was easy. He was a commissioned officer. It was interesting to...

When he was told that he would be trained aboard ship as a gunner, Robert Fitz was "mystified." He arrived at the main...

Alois Kopp was in Pocatello, Idaho in the Civilian Conservation Camp when the Navy recruited him. He was sent to San...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

Anthony Bianconi was in dry dock [Annotator's Note: as a musician and ammunition bearer on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with the interviewer and Leon Schafer in conversation.] Leon Schafer was born in...

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