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Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

When Richard Thelen returned home, he served at the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station outside of Detroit [Annotator's Note:...

Curt Simmons was a member of the US Navy Armed Guard. He was born on a farm outside of Walters, Oklahoma and was a farm...

Jack Dye [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS LSM-232] landed at various islands both during the battles...

Ben Ray Bost loved getting Marines on board ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316], especially those from North...

Edgar De Pue Osgood spent some time on liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time]...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Most people do not remember anything and it [Annotator's Note: World War 2] is foreign to them. Charlie Lomax does not...

David Hanning was born in May 1927 in Saranac Lake, New York. His mother, a nurse from Montreal [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Curt Simmons served in the Navy in the Armed Guard as a gunner aboard merchant ships in the North...

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