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Harry Watson said that when the war started, the submarines were used merely as a scouting force. They would get...

Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...

Herbert Fontenot found a sweetheart after his discharge from the Navy. She was similar in background to him. They fell...

Robert Villars sailed through the Straits of Magellan after leaving Montevideo, Uruguay. He saw the local inhabitants...

At the end of January [Annotator's Note: January 1945] in Leyte Gulf, Frederick Grun had his first experience with...

Judge Gordon Thompson recalled preparing for the invasion of mainland Japan in the Leyte Gulf, Philippines. He recalled...

Theodore Vallas was born in March 1921 in a small town in Idaho [Annotator's Note: Pocatello, Idaho]. His father died...

Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman if the Navy changed between World War 2 and the Korean War.]...

Philip Curran and his family talked about the impending war developments all the time. His grandfather was an avid...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

Lawrence Winnier ate well on his ships [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32) and the USS Argonne (AS-10)]...

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