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When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

Thomas Lusco Sr. was born in Rita, Louisiana. He was raised with 14 kids in his family. He went to a Catholic school...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

Robert Curl liked serving in the Navy. The food was good and he enjoyed his time in service. There was one thing he did...

Leon Schafer and the crew [Annotator's Note: of the USS LST-502] got orders home in November 1944. They could not wait...

Wallace Spencer remembers the air groups and the pilots stayed away from the sailors. In one attack, all the colored...

I. J. Karpay enjoyed being an Armed Guard [Annotator's Note: US Navy Armed Guard] on a merchant ship [Annotator's Note...

Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan], Adolfo V. Celaya...

Bettylu Dennis served in the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was born in April 1923 in Visalia, California. During the Great Depression, his father worked for...

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