Interview with Vaughn M. Stevens, June 11, 2002

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about life before joining the Navy and where he went for his training.

Keywords: Armed Guard; Austin, Minnesota; Butler University; Great Lakes; MERSIGS, Merchant Signals; Navy; New York; Pearl Harbor; Port Authorities; U-Boats; WWII; blinker message; liberty ship

Subjects: Butler University.; Great Lakes (North America); Liberty ships.; New York.; Pearl Harbor, Attack on, 1941.; Port districts.; Submarines (Ships)--Germany,; United States. Navy.; World War, 1939-1945.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about his deployment overseas and all of the different locations his ship stopped at.

Keywords: Bahia, Brazil; Bandar Shapur; Fremantle, Australia; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Indian Ocean; Panama; Panama Canal; Panama City; Persian Gulf; Russia; U-Boat; hurricane

Subjects: Fremantle, Australia--Harbor.; Guantánamo Bay (Cuba); Indian Ocean.; Panama (Panama); Panama Canal.; Panama.; Persian Gulf.; Russia.; Salvador (Brazil); Submarines (Ships)--Germany.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about his ship landing in Naples a month after it was bombed. Talks about his convoy being attacked by U-Boats.

Keywords: Coast Guard; Irish Sea; Liverpool; Mediterranean; Murmansk, Russia; Naples; North Africa; Port of Algeria; Tunisia; U-boat; depth charges; destroyer escorts

Subjects: Africa, North.; Coastal surveillance.; Depth charges.; Destroyer escorts.; Irish Sea.; Liverpool (England); Mediterranean Sea.; Murmansk (Russia); Naples (Italy); Submarines (Ships)--Germany,; Tunisia.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about being at the main battle on D-day.

Keywords: Cliffs of Dover; D-Day; General Quarters; V2 rocket; buzz bombs; mosquito bombers

Subjects: Mosquito (Military aircraft); World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.

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Keywords: Allied countries; Aruba; Iwo Jima; Merchant Marines; New Hebrides Islands; New York; Norfolk, VA; Normandy Beach; Okinawa; Panama Canal; SS J.C. Donnell; SS Julesburg; flack; tracer bullets

Subjects: Aruba.; Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan); New York.; Norfolk (Va.); Normandy (France); Okinawa Island (Japan); Panama Canal.; Vanuatu.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about the time he found out the war was over.

Keywords: Iwo Jima; LST; Okinawa; destroyers; kamikaze; landing ship tank

Subjects: Destroyers (Warships); Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan); Kamikaze.; Landing craft.; Okinawa Island (Japan)

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about his brother's plane getting shot down and finding out what happened to him.

Keywords: Attu, Alaska; German Cemetery, American Cemetery, Omaha Beach; Kamchatka Peninsula

Subjects: Attu Island (Alaska); Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia).; Operation Neptune.