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The numbers of Clarke Langrall's first and second convoys [Annotator's Note: aboard the merchant ship SS Vernon L....

After his return [Annotator's Note: from a convoy run to Russia], Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. took some time off and then...

At the beginning of the war, the ships [Annotator's Note: United States Merchant Marine ships] traveled by themselves...

It is hard for Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. to remember a lot. He does not remember the names of half the ships he was on....

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

James Crane experienced a great change in the Merchant Marine. He was concerned about making the first convoy, but he...

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

Walter Broll passed through the station [Annotator's Note: the Merchant Marine training station at Sheepshead Bay in...

The draft board sent William Nesser a notice to report. He disregarded it, because he had his time in [Annotator's Note...

John DuBose reached his new ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Bostonian] and was immediately given lifeboat training. He...

Hartsel Ross joined the Maritime Services [Annotator's Note: the US Merchant Marine] in January 1944. He boarded a...

Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

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