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Richard R. Ruess was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1918. His parents had two daughters that were killed in...

Edmund Durocher was born in Manhattan and moved to Queens when he was eight years old. He graduated from high school in...

Paul Sartori Jr. returned home in January 1946. His father was waiting for him. He needed him to go to work. He was a...

Claude Shannahan got out of the Marine Corps and returned to Mount Clemens, Michigan. His father owned a bar and...

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

Archie Kelley was born in the Naval gun factory in Washington, D.C. [Annotator's Note: Washington Navy Yard in...

The military taught Richard Baile discipline. It also gave him another education. The combination of his college...

Roger Shaw was assigned to the SS George Gayle on the Industrial Canal while it was still being completed by the...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] returned to Bremerton, Washington via Pearl Harbor [...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs enlisted into the Navy in the fall of 1942 and was inducted on 5 October 1942. At that time, the...

Interviewer asks Delewski if his experience on the Laffey changed him. On the day that all of this happened [Annotator'...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

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