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Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

Louis John Walter departed New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] on the James Smith [Annotator's Note: SS...

Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...

Louis John Walter sailed on the James Fallen [Annotator's Note: unable to verify ship name]. A couple of Walter's...

Clint Quirk thought the most enjoyable experience was coming into port and getting drunk. Then getting back on the ship...

Louis John Walter had few of the military benefits as a civilian [Annotator's Note: Walter served in the United States...

Ralph Crump was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The years of the Great Depression were "terrible," Crump said...

When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Ralph Crump said there was "tremendous panic" in the Los Angeles area. They immediately...

After he graduated from high school, Ralph Crump opted against college, because he considered it a low-cost recruitment...

At 18, Ralph Crump was awed by the work and the caliber of the professionals with whom he interacted [Annotator's Note...

In the beginning of 1943, Ralph Crump's draft status required that his boss write a letter every six months to the...

Ralph Crump had passed all the tests, but all the gunnery training billets were full, and he was told that he would be...

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