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Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Phineas Stevens to explain what an LST or Landing Ship, Tank is.] "Large, Slow...

Charles Graves Chauncey's first mission was to Truk Island [Annotator's Note: Truk Lagoon or Chuuk Lagoon, Federated...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] In 1969, George N. Boutwell...

Glenn Frazier was born in Fort Deposit, Alabama in 1924. He grew up during the Great Depression, but since his family...

Robert Taylor slept in a hammock with netting for mosquitoes. They had tents. The chaplain was like the Red Cross guru...

Samuel Ukrop experienced a lot of intense training for Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed...

The Battle of the Driniumor River lasted for 45 days. William Garbo was attached to a regiment of the Army's Dixie...

Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

Paris Tognoli was born in December 1924 in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. They later...

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was drafted into the armed forces and chose to serve in the Navy. He boarded a train and was...

Lloyd Dendy had been on a ship coming home when the war in Europe ended [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1945] and President...

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