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[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] After recruit training, George...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

James Wilson's platoon leader [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Ralph Crump [Annotators Note: For the first 22:26 of this interview the interviewer and interviewee chat about family...

Samuel Goss sailed [Annotator's Note: aboard USS Bladen (APA-63)] from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Emmett Kaylor's time in basic training was his first time in the South where they talked a little different. Their...

Robert Lewter would swap cigarettes for Japanese services. The Japanese used needles and sewed thread as straight as an...

On 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was attacked by the Japanese and the...

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Robert Swan joined the Navy to avoid the draft. He was flying in Missoula where was going to school. He only had a year...

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