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Sam L. Miller reported aboard the USS Edgecombe (APA-164) in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California...

At 11 years in the Navy, Randall Edwards decided to make a career of the military. In 1946, he had an unfortunate...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum was an all-American boy and he wanted to fight for his country. He enlisted and his parents were...

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

Edmond Guidry wanted to kill the Japanese for what they did. When the war ended, the United States still did not trust...

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

Raymond Hayes' most memorable experience of the war was going aboard ships and doing what he had to do. Like it or not...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

Ralph Weymouth's first combat action was off Guadalcanal. They were supporting the landings on the seventh [Annotator's...

Alvin Barnes was temporarily assigned to the USS Indianapolis [Annotator's Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] for one day...

Harold Zeringer and several of his friends decided to enlist in the United States Navy on 9 December 1941, just a few...

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