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Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines laughed at the Japanese bombing the lagoon. Nothing was being accomplished while the...

In the Spring of 1942, Benjamin Clark Amsden started pursuing going into Naval Aviation. He found out the eye exam was...

Frank Stewart stopped to see one of his brothers in Oklahoma on his way to Boston when he returned to the United States...

Horace Trahan was born in January 1927 in Maurice, Louisiana. He had one brother and two sisters. His father owned a...

When the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier] was attacked and ensign Mears and...

Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

In Hawaii, Garland Virgil Longhoffer was still a replacement. It took time to get out of the United States. The trip to...

William Winter agrees with the interviewer's statement that many black veterans felt more freedom in the Army than they...

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