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Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was born February 1924 in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was in the bakery and restaurant...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Gerald “Gerry”...

Russell Van Matre enlisted in the US Army in December 1942. For the year between then and Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

When William Goldsborough learned about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Arthur Fishman had one sister growing up. His mother died when he was six years old. A few years later, his father...

At 16, Charles Davis was one of 1,200 men, including his brother, a Marine, who boarded the USS Helena (CL-50) on New...

Ennis C. Warren was born in Wilmer, Alabama in September 1923. His mother died when he was born. He was raised by his...

Alton Bourg was born in November 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of nine children. His father was a...

Michael Wilford Boos was born in May 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of five children. During the Great...

Charles A. Waller was born in August 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in the suburb of West Roxbury. He was...

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