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By the time Harold Whitaker made his first voyage carrying grain to North Africa the war in Europe was over so there...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. He doesn't recall the cargo on his first trip...

Louis John Walter was first assigned to the SS James Buchanan [Annotator's Note: as a seaman in the Merchant Marine]....

Crump and the Chief Engineer had done some work when the seas were calm. The Chief Engineer felt that there was a...

Clint Quirk was born in December 1923 in Butte, Montana and grew up in Anaconda, Montana. He had one sister. His father...

As a 13 year old, David Yoho did not have friends of draft age. He did keep company with older boys and took on a tough...

After high school, Harold Whitaker was bumming around and getting trouble until his mother and a family friend...

Walter Broll benefited by the war because it made him an alert man instead of the 18 year old minor he was when he...

After Erik Johnsen graduated from his final training at Kings Point, [Annotator's Note: US Merchant Marine Academy,...

Louis John Walter left San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] aboard the William G. Fargo [...

Crump got to Panteloria and was alongside the dock. All of the German prisoners of war did the work. They were younger...

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