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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was born in...

A collective document center was established by Whiney Harris and his colleagues in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice....

Charlie Lomax was in the Reserves [Annotator's Note: US Naval Reserve] about eight years. That was mostly training one...

Herbert Fontenot went to Camp Wallace, Texas for Navy boot camp. He had no problem with the weather but wearing boots...

In the early part of 1944, Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] were put in a...

Paul Rothenheber was never in direct action. He thought France was strange. He was knocked out in Le Havre [Annotator's...

William Cassady remembers Saipan [Annotator’s Note: Battle of Saipan, Mariana Islands; 15 June to 9 July 1944] was...

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....

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator’s Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into the Navy...

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