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James Patterson trained in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]. His crew was like a family. They...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Elroy Gambino was born in March 1925 in the Irish Channel [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana]. He grew up in...

Charles Bruce was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1926. He had two brothers and a sister. He was the oldest. He was...

Carl Trim says the tensest time on any trip at sea was when the captain would call everyone to general quarters [...

When David Thomason was at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

Astley Blackwell’s ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] was sunk on 25 October [Annotator's Note: 25...

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

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was born in Ballinger, Texas in May 1925. In the 1920s, his parents owned a ranch. Because...

When he was in high school, Paul Amrod played baseball as a catcher. In the service, he learned he was not major league...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

Carroll George was on a transport ship that made tremendous voyages, two to the Far East and one to the Mediterranean,...

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