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Thomas Tizzard says that his most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard to pin down. It could be the first time...

John Smith's journey overseas began in San Francisco, California in early June and ended in Brisbane, Australia in July...

Windom Joseph Burton went into Navy boot camp in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia] and was then sent for...

After the conclusion of World War 2, Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Harold Bergbower was born in Newton, Illinois in 1920. He had four brothers and two sisters. He was the fifth born of...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

Joseph Brannan was based for a time in Leghorn, Italy as the city was called in English. It is referred to as Livorno...

John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow did not see any combat [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] like his brothers did, so he...

After listening to Walter Winchell [Annotator's Note: Walter Winchell, American newspaper columnist] on the radio...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

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