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[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey if he is familiar with US Army Lieutenant General Lewis Hyde...

Harold Jones was born in February 1924 in Mead, Colorado and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. He was a Depression [...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

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

Roland M. Lee was born in Punta Gorda, Florida where he grew up and attended high school. The town population was only...

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

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

John Foy was born in October 1925 in Rochester, New York, one of the ten children of a plumbing contractor. He came up...

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

James Joseph Bollich was born in August 1921 south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

Edward Stone and the USS Bumper (SS-333) were ordered to return to Pearl Harbor. The boat operated out of Pearl Harbor...

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