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Carey Suratt left the United States Army Transport Imperial [Annotator's Note: USAT Imperial], and walked through mud...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....

Donald Stratton is from Red Cloud, Nebraska. His family was farmers early on in their lives. Stratton had one sister...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Raymond Hayes went into service in July 1947 [Annotator's Note: he corrects this later]. He got out in 1959. He had...

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

Claude Bufford Shaw didn't come immediately back to the United States when the war ended as he was making a career of...

Vernon Micheel sailed on a freighter manned by a crew from Ceylon [Annotator's Note: now Sri Lanka, November 1942]. He...

Alois Kopp saw conditions improve when he and other POWs from Burma were brought to Saigon. The local Vietnamese hated...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

Remembering a sister ship that had come into the Mediterranean by way of Oran, John Laster said it had picked up a...

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