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James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...

During the surrender, Bruno S. Rinas was sick, or he would have run into the hills. He discussed it with some comrades...

Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller] took part in the...

Alfred Raymond Mosher lost about 30 or 40 pounds while he was a prisoner. Mosher remained in the Navy for an additional...

Earnest did get his eight landings in. The next time he was going to be making a landing he was on the Saratoga [...

When Orville Bethard graduated from high school he was 19 years old and eligible for the draft. He did not like the...

Upon completing his training, Paul Ignatius was assigned to Composite Squadron 80 (VC-80) aboard the USS Manila Bay (...

James Patterson enjoyed flying. He misses flying. His nephew took him to Mount Pleasant, Texas where there was a hangar...

It took them 3 weeks to get to Australia in the convoy. When he came home it took 15 days.DeMers never had trouble with...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Robert Beynon what it was like to go out and come back from patrols on a...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

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