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Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...

Abner Aust was determined to get 30 years in the service. He had good jobs and he did good jobs. He had good crews who...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

William Cart and some other men who worked on the carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10), on display at...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

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

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]...

At the time of Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. 's enlistment [Annotator's Note: in the United States Marine Corps in December...

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

Samuel Malta had difficulties after his discharge from the service. He did not like taking orders from civilians. He...

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