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[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] In...

William O’Brien remembers that they ate well on the battleship. They had a small refrigerator. They checked all the...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

Olaf Rose said he suffered no lasting effects from the war, and had no trouble transitioning from sailor to civilian....

Wallace McKay did have bad feelings towards the Japanese. He married a Canadian woman. He was concerned about the Nazis...

Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

Robert Templet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1920. At the age of five years old, his family moved to...

Fred L. Keller, Jr. helped load bombs on torpedo planes, TBMs [Annotator's Note: Keller served as an ordnanceman aboard...

After basic training Richard Greer and the other Marines from his boot camp class went to Norfolk, Virginia where they...

The reason Frederick Stent served during World War 2 was because he wanted to be in the military. His father had served...

John DuBose reached his new ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Bostonian] and was immediately given lifeboat training. He...

James Paul Lynch had a wonderful experience on the Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)]. They had fine officers...

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