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Sherman Vangrov was born in March 1927 in Dayton, Ohio, but moved around the county because his mother was ill. He...

David Yoho had his first voyage on a tanker shakedown trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the shakedown, the ship went...

Sherman Vangrov served on the SS William D. Pender as a Merchant Marine during the last months of World War 2. His ship...

David Yoho remembers the huge fleet off Okinawa and the explosion of an ammunition ship. It had been attacked by a...

David Yoho was on a fleet oiler in World War 2. The ship took on fuel sometimes from a fuel barge in order to refuel...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts on a black screen.] William Nesser was born in Columbus, Ohio in February 1920...

Woods and the interviewer discuss the format for the interview.Edward Thomas Woods was born in 1927 in Manhattan, New...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser served aboard the SS Kalliopi in Russia where they loaded lumber for England.] They...

When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser served aboard the SS Kalliopi, and was returning to the United States from England.]...

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