Search results

Map is loading...

William Roy went below on the Hammann [Annotator's Note: USS Hammann (DD-412)]. Roy found sailors being operated on and...

Edward Chinnis, Jr. was assigned to a tanker after completing radio school. Prior to that he was assigned to a mine...

James William Grimes [Annotator's Note: assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 45 (CASU 45) aboard the USS Hornet (...

Billy Grieves watches movies like Run Silent, Run Deep religiously. He feels that they are more Hollywood than reality...

[Annotator's Note: Keith Renstrom served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Gunnery Sergeant in Company F, 2nd Battalion,...

Louis John Walter departed New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] on the James Smith [Annotator's Note: SS...

Richard Micklich recalls the relief and happiness he felt on VE Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...

After being discharged in August 1946, Harry McKnight went home and enrolled in the University of Ohio [Annotator's...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew was born in September 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. After four years in Duluth, his family moved to...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

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

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

Oral History