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[Annotator's Note: Someone off camera interjects at various points.] As his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Suwannee (...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Okinawa, Japan in July 1945.] There was a sign posted saying that they...

After World War 2, Rex James Bates matured and became a more responsible person. He remarks about his time at the...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Haney Ambrose was born in 1922 in Baton, Rouge, Louisiana. His father was a carpenter and farmer during the Great...

Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...

After the battle of Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo Jima, Japan],...

Baptiste was born in Saint James Parish, Louisiana on 4 November 1916. He is in town [Annotator's Note: New Orleans]...

After eight weeks of boot camp, James Goodrich was sent to Camp Elliot. Camp Pendleton was not around at that time....

Myers didn't lock his doors when he was growing up. If strangers came by, you would share food with them. People came...

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