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Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Lawson T. Winslow, Junior, an engineer working for Standard Oil Company (later...

Frank V. Tarkington joined the Indiana National Guard, but was kicked out because it came to light that he was too...

Frederick Jenkins thought it was hard to get organized. He had a school teacher as his company commander during boot...

Mark Maynard trained new submariners at New London before being assigned to a new submarine. He was responsible to...

Olaf Rose was born in August 1921 in Pontiac, Michigan, and was the oldest of four children. His father was in the...

Robert Freligh probably decided to join the navy because his brother was in the army and there was most likely some...

George Morgan was tasked at Iwo Jima to swim to a peninsula in the island and place a battery operated light on it. It...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

The night the USS Catoctin (AGC-5) was hit by the bomb, Howard Fox was on the bridge, copying messages and reading...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

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