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William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. has fond and scary memories of his military service. He cannot imagine staying in...

Roger Shaw was 22 years old when he returned to the United States. When he got back to the United States, he went up...

Dee Wayne White’s most memorable experience of his service was in the Merchant Marine when his ship took on several...

Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...

By May 1944, David R. Saunders had joined the Army and was sent to Camp Beauregard [Annotator's Note: in Pineville,...

Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...

[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...

Roger Shaw wanted to ship out on a vessel that traversed the Mississippi River frequently. This would better enable him...

Woods was upset after the war because he wasn't given the benefits of the G.I. Bill. A friend of his his who had been...

Walter Broll saw the raid on Bari, Italy start at about 7:30 at night while the Grace Abbott's cargo was being...

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