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Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

After graduating from Navy training, Sam S. McKeel was assigned to LST-579 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] and...

Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

In the 1930s, Thomas E. Warne was living at the Del Monte Plantation in the Philippines because his father was the...

James McEnery liked having the Dobermans around. McEnery remembers a shipment of dogs being delivered to them at the...

Robert Freligh probably decided to join the navy because his brother was in the army and there was most likely some...

Charles Watkins Adair was sent to Nadzab, New Guinea [Annotator's Note: Nadzab Airfield in Lae, Papua New Guinea with...

Chris Carawan was born in 1926 in Washington, North Carolina into a family of seagoing people. His father was a sea...

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

Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

Henry Joffray was a member of the Merchant Marine during World War 2. There were 4,000 ships and 260,000 sailors in...

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