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David Thomason loved it [Annotator's Note: Navy boot camp] and worked hard. He went home on leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

Harold Zeringer was born in Houma, Louisiana in 1922 and grew up in New Orleans. There were good neighbors and friends...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

Donald H. "Don" Bee was sent from Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake...

Samuel Goss boarded the USS Bladen [Annotator's Note: USS Bladen (APA-63)] as it entered into a trial period prior to...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

Otis Kight participated in the Battle of Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942]. Few...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

James Allen remembers Henry Glinski coming aboard with him. Glinski was a couple years older than Allen. Allen had...

Robert L. Rorschach was a member of the radar crew on the Pickaway [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] which was...

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