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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

Everett Hyland was on the radio gang on the Memphis [Annotator's Note: USS Memphis (CL-13)]. They picked up 200...

Henry Schaller was born in April 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended school there until he went to college. His...

Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

Alvin Russo was born in December 1924 in Buffalo, New York. He was an only child. His father was a pharmacist. His...

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey if he is familiar with US Army Lieutenant General Lewis Hyde...

In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...

Edward Lalande returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] in a convoy. He had been in Oran [Annotator's...

Hillman James Prestridge was born in September 1924 in Cragford, Alabama, a small town of about 400 people. He had one...

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

When William Goldsborough learned about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

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