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James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Edmond Guidry joined the Navy in July 1942. He went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California...

Richard Miralles got word on his 18th birthday that they were going home. He went on liberty [Annotator's Note: an...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson served aboard the USS Jamestown...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

Clem Thrift was born in January 1927 in Thomasville, North Carolina. He never knew his father, who died in an accident...

While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart. When he told Mangrum that...

On 7 December 1941, Alfred Raymond was sleeping and someone came and woke him up to tell him that the Japanese had...

In the first days of June [Annotator's Note: June 1942], Donald Hoff and his fellow airmen were getting nervous,...

After doing shore duty for a couple weeks, Lincoln Grahlfs was transferred to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Northern Marianas...

Richard Welch joined the Navy in November 1944 and was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training [Annotator's Note: Naval...

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