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Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

Robert Dickinson boarded the newly commissioned USS Queenfish (SS-393) as a Seaman Second Class. It didn't seem like he...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of skipping in the beginning of this clip.] George Culpepper was born in Fort Valley...

Cecil N. Duck served in the Navy until 1949, then worked for a company in Pensacola, Florida before enlisting in the...

Frank Purvis had never been to sea before. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Snowden (DE-246)] was commissioned with a...

While in Hawaii, Frank Faust treated crew members from submarines while they were on leave. Faust also taught first aid...

Harold Hall Ashton was born in May 1919 in Shed, Oregon. He grew up in a family with four children. All four siblings,...

Joseph Townsend was born in April 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He grew up in Shreveport. He had two brothers and two...

During one of his trips back to the United States Alexander Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero [...

The men got up before daylight and took their mess kits and lined up for some soup. Then they immediately lined up in...

As far as a specific routine, they knew what had to be done when they woke up in the morning. The crews were very...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

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