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After his examinations, J. L. Giroir was sent to San Diego, California for basic training. Because he had been a...

After the landings at Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea], Mark Brannon...

About a month before the Battle of Midway the skipper decided to assign crews. The chief radioman asked if anyone had a...

Ralph Weymouth was awarded the Navy Cross for the Battle of the Philippine Sea. He was given the award for his...

[Annotator's Note: Margaret Stephensen was an administrative clerk at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D.C...

Bruce McCormick was in the military for a long time. A lot of his friends who were soldiers in Korea [Annotator's Note...

The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...

Edward Dunne and the men [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS LST-53] were told what was going to happen [Annotator's...

[Annotator’s Note: Comments from others off camera can be heard throughout segment.] Edmund Aziz and his ship [...

While preparing to graduate from high school, Charles “Chuck” Franzke was encouraged by his father to take a test to...

Milton Muelder spent seven years working on his doctoral dissertation, and in this section he describes his research on...

J. L. Giroir wrote to his mother on the Fourth of July [Annotator's Note: 4 July 1944], and although he could not tell...

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