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Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

Willie Roy Hebert qualified as expert on the M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Frank George Memory was a crewman on a submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Gato (SS-212)]. The boat was about 300 feet...

Stewart Bass was trained to be a naval aviator. The first months involved college type training at St. Mary's College...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew were supposed to go to Australia on R...

Clayton Hall was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

Bailey checked in with his draft board and was put on a bus to Camp Croft. He told the army recruiter that he wanted to...

There was an interpreter that could speak Japanese [Annotator's Note: in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

Howard Robert Charles was inducted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in June 1940] in San Diego [Annotator's...

Rollins Rosenzweig had a rough boot camp experience in San Diego. He did not complain but rather took it as it came. It...

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