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[Annotator's Note: The interview starts on a black screen.] William Nesser was born in Columbus, Ohio in February 1920...

John Scott Campbell cannot remember the name of his second ship [Annotator's Note: SS Andrew G. Curtin]. [Annotator's...

Maxwell Nelson’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of Japan [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945...

One of Crump’s friends was on watch on a ship that was torpedoed. Crump’s convoy had about 35 percent casualties. The...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

John Scott Campbell lost three ships. The one [Annotator's Note: SS Andrew G. Curtin, sunk 1944] in the Barents Sea [...

Crump was lucky making the transition from military to civilian life. He had worked in the shipyards prior to military...

Erik Johnsen's training in the US Merchant Marine at Henderson Point, Mississippi was very similar to that of a raw...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser served aboard the SS Kalliopi in Russia where they loaded lumber for England.] They...

John Scott Campbell went to England and back. He also went to Oban, Scotland. They unloaded in Cherbourg [Annotator's...

Woods and the interviewer discuss the format for the interview.Edward Thomas Woods was born in 1927 in Manhattan, New...

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