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The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

After he returned to the United States, Robert Lents took a test to go to officers' school, but after he passed, he...

When Crain was in the armada heading towards the beaches [Annotator's Note: during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943],...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Whidhelm ended up as the CO of Scouting 8 aboard the USS Hornet. One day while sitting in the ready room Vejtasa...

Harold C. Cook was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania. His father produced milk and ice cream on his dairy farm. Cook...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

Paul Lawrence was at the Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] commencement speech...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...

Allen Lamm was born in 1924 in Denham Springs, Louisiana. He grew up there and can remember the physical punishment he...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

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