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Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine and his first ship assignment was the SS Dolly Madison which they...

Leo Denault finished school in June and went into the service on 16 August 1943. He went to basic training in Gulfport...

Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine and served on Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of cargo ship...

David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...

In Combat Intelligence school they learned to analyze and creep up on Japanese emplacements, the types of troops, type...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...

Adolph Wilson was a platoon sergeant on Iwo Jima but acted as a lieutenant after the officers were wounded or killed....

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

Glen Kuskie had just made it to shore after surviving a Hell ship that was sunk by the Americans. [Annotator's Note:...

Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

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