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Zilliacus, Patrick Life in America
[Annotator's Note: Patrick Zilliacus emigrated to the United States from Finland with his mother and brother.] They...
Winslow, Lawson Life In Iran in the 1970s
When Lawson T. Winslow, Junior [Annotator's Note: an engineer on loan to the government of Iran from Standard Oil...
Martin, Robert Life in New Orleans
Robert Martin got his tattoo when he was on a ship with three other guys. They were in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston...
Kopp, Alois Life in POW Camps
Alois Kopp was aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) defending Java when the ship was sunk. He survived and was taken prisoner...
Lents, Robert Life in Prison Camp
Robert Lents said that for a year and a half the prisoners did everything from building an underground radio station to...
Floravante, Emile Life in the Field
Alfred Anthony Alvarez was in Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: with the 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry...
Evans, Lewis Life in the Navy
Lewis S. Evans was born in April 1925. He went to boarding school during the Great Depression and played football and...
Gibfried, Paul Life in the Navy
Paul Gibfried worked at the Executive Office of the Secretary of the Navy. It was a data center that informed him of...
Borrell, Francis "Frank" Life in the Navy
Francis "Frank" Borrell was born in Beacon, New York, 60 miles north of New York City and ten miles from West Point [...
Shaw, Claude Life in the Navy
After serving aboard the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke DD-4156)], Claude Bufford Shaw was assigned to the Bullard...
Hutchinson, Louis Life in the Pacific
Louis Hutchinson and the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) used Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands] as an...
Oney, James Life in the Russell Islands
James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...
Block, Louis Life in the Service
Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...
Castellano, Nancy Life in the WAVES
Nancy Lynch Castellano [Annotator's Note: in the WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States...
Long, Catherine Life in the WAVES
Catherine Long lived in a barracks with four other WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...
Bennett, Richard Life Lessons
Richard Bennett's transition from sailor to civilian was so wrapped up in school, work and family matters, he hardly...
Thornhill, Jack Life on a Destroyer and Heading Home
[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...
Adams, Lynward Life on a Merchant Ship
Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was a Navy Armed Guard and guarded US Merchant Marine ships during World War 2....
Littig, Charles Ross Life on a PT Boat
Charles Littig and his PT crewmen had informal interchanges without the formality found on larger Navy vessels. That...
McConnell, Trist Life on a PT Boat
Julian Trist Bringier McConnell’s boat [Annotator's Note: McConnell served as an officer aboard patrol torpedo boats,...
Thompson, Thomas Life on a PT-Boat
Thomas D. Thompson was observing a dogfight between a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter...
Dannehl, Robert Life on a Ship
Robert Dannehl had further trained in Portland, Maine where he became an operator of a high frequency direction finder...
Grieves, Billy Life on a Submarine
The Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)] had torpedo problems on most of her runs. Billy Grieves kept an...
Burr, John Life on a Submarine
John Burr was on watch and he could spot anything on watch at night. He wanted to be on his watch at least five minutes...
Trim, Carl Life on a Submarine Chaser
After his induction in Little Rock [Annotator's Note: Little Rock, Arkansas], Carl Trim was sent to Farragut, Idaho for...
Bucher, Francis Life on Adak
The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...
Rosenzweig, Rollins Life on an Aircraft Carrier
Following stateside training, Rollins Rosenzweig was assigned to the Bunker Hill [Annotator's Note: USS Bunker Hill (CV...
Earles, John Life on Base in California
When he was at the Coronado, California base, John Earles said he experienced a lot of good USO [Annotator's Note:...
Karpay, Irwin Life on Board Ship
I. J. Karpay enjoyed being an Armed Guard [Annotator's Note: US Navy Armed Guard] on a merchant ship [Annotator's Note...
Brannan, Joseph Life on PT-305
Joseph Brannan was in a crew on PT-305 that was composed of two officers and from 12 to 14 enlisted men. The enlisted...
Dunne, Edward Life on Ship During D-Day
Edward Dunne's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-53] had a big ramp that the tanks would go off of. There were six...
Heuer, Frank Life on Tarawa
In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...
Linscott, Jack Life on the Ship
Jack Linscott remembers that the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ships] were not...
Owen, Jack Life on the USS Colusa
Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...
Martin, Robert Life on the USS LST-515
Robert Martin was transferred to the USS LST-515. It was a smaller ship than the USS Donner (LSD-20). He did not like...
David, James Life on Tulagi
James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

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