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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Phineas Stevens to explain what an LST or Landing Ship, Tank is.] "Large, Slow...

William Currier's first seagoing engagement was aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) as part of a task group that escorted...

Howard Robert Charles was inducted into the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in June 1940] in San Diego [Annotator's...

Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

[Annotator's Note: Guy Grenny was stationed at the Naval Air Station in San Diego, California.] Grenny served food and...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Victor James Yost was born on a farm in Illinois in October 1920. His parents were farmers. Yost was one of eight...

Alex Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M...

James Ramage started his career in the US Navy aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6). The non-aviators in the Navy at the...

Harold Ward remembers that it was quiet after they secured from general quarters. Around three in the afternoon they...

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