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[Annotator’s Note: There is a person assisting the interviewee with answering Interviewer’s questions throughout the...

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

Herbert Fontenot found a sweetheart after his discharge from the Navy. She was similar in background to him. They fell...

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

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was going to be sent...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] They had rocket boats [Annotator...

After the Nuremberg trials, Whitney Harris went to Berlin as head of the legal advice branch on General Clay's [...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmember aboard the USS LST-53] did not like the Germans or the Japanese. He still...

Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the landing forces around...

Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer, even though he had no training in this...

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