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Gerald V. West was born in Glens Falls, New York in October 1919. His family owned a farm of about 140 acres and West's...

Therese Wadsworth Warne's [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2]...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

Ralph C. Franklin did not pass his first physical for the Marine Corps because he was underweight. He ate bananas and...

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was assigned to the USS Patterson (DD-392) docked in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor,...

After his discharge from serving in World War 2, Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. remained in the Naval Reserve and was called up...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom figured God was very good to him in that he allowed him to go through the war and not even get...

Frederick Ellis was relieved [Annotator's Note: of his command of USS LST-1026] and went to San Francisco [Annotator's...

Olaf Rose said they did not go out every night, and they kept the engines tuned up, so there was not much work done on...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

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