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Elizabeth Gibbens was born in January 1920 in Corning, New York. Her father, a schoolteacher at the time, moved the...

Oscar Higgenbotham was born in January 1924 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father, a mechanical engineer, found...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

[Annotator's Note: Segment begins with Sacks and the interviewer discussing the interviewee referring to his notes...

Roy Johnston was born in Emma, Louisiana and grew up in various settlements in the northwest of the state. His father...

Robert Wolf returned to the United States from the Philippines and went back to school. He graduated in 1949. He...

Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

One of George Kearney's friends, who lives not far from him, was a ban saw operator who cut the notches for the keel...

Nicholas J. Zuras was born in Washington D.C. in July 1918. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Martin Jacobson underwent demolition training at Fort Pierce, Florida. He also learned sneak and peek, or surreptitious...

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