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Irvin C. Klimas was in boot camp for six weeks. After boot camp, he had a ten day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Richard Ryan served aboard the Tripoli [Annotator's Note: USS Tripoli (CVE-64)] in the Pacific and the Card [Annotator'...

Thomas Kingsley's departure for military training was an emotional family event. He had volunteered for the Army...

The flights to the far north did not always include a landing, Bennett sparks pointed out; it was sometimes a loop...

Describing the journey on the SS Dorchester, Ben Epstein said it was a terrible trip. But he pointed out that in every...

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....

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

James Moshovitis was sent to radio school in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He didn't like taking Morse code, and he fought the...

The US Coast Guard started issuing seaman's IDs for all kinds of ships due to the shortage of eligible sailors. Ejnar...

Depth charges were generally under the wings of the aircraft, according to Bennett Sparks. The pilot, given location...

It couldn't have been long afterward, any longer and he would have died of hypothermia, that Ben Epstein reached one of...

Charles Wesley Borders was born in April 1922 in Kenedy, Texas. He was the third child of six. His father was a school...

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