The Stories
Follow the links below to find stories of the men and of the ships of the Navy Armed Guard and the merchant marine.
Abandoned Convoy, PQ-17
Armed Guard Reports, examples
Armed Guard Reports, many ships
Bari, Italy
Tragedy at Bari, Italy
Tragedy at Bari - Disaster in the Italian
Campaign
Battle of the Atlantic
Beyond the Call of Duty
Convoy PQ 17
Convoy to Murmansk
Convoy to Murmansk - PQ 15
Last of the Gallant Liberties
Life boat stories requested
The Mediterranean
Merchant Marine Radio Operators
Missing in Action in the North Atlantic
The North Atlantic, 1943, by Harry Staton
The Pacific
Remembering "The Suicide Run" to Murmansk
Ship Logs, Reports and Publication Extracts
The Great Generation
The Legend of Gallups Island
The Men Who Remember War
Operation Pedestal, the rescue of Malta
Press Releases, War Shipping Administration, United States Maritime Commission
Stories and photographs of many ships
Survivor Stories: SS ATLANTIC SUN, SS JACKSONVILLE, SS PUERTO RICAN, SS WILLIAM C. GORGAS, SS WILLIAM F. HUMPHREY, SS MASSMAR
Veterans History Project, Library of Congress, includes a search capability for the stories of merchant marine and U.S. Navy veterans
World War II Navy documents, Armed Guard officer reports for ships in which Tom Bowerman served
Louis Cafiero, his travels and pictures, wartime and postwar
Audio and video interviews
- Armed Guard veterans, Cleveland, Ohio - video interviews
- George William Adkison, merchant mariner, video interview
- Carroll Tom Allen, merchant mariner, video interview
- John Ara, merchant mariner, audio interview
- John Dillard Arms, merchant mariner, video interview
- Ellis Barklow, Armed Guard, audio interview
- J. O. Beals, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Charles W. Bellinger, merchant mariner, audio interview
- John Joseph Boros, merchant mariner, video interview
- Walter J. Botto, merchant marine officer, audio interview
- L. Arthur Burton, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Clyde D. Carpenter, merchant mariner, video interview
- William Scott Chambers, merchant marine officer, audio interview
- Arnold DeHeus, merchant marine officer, audio interview
- Angelo Dematti, merchant mariner, video interview
- Earl Lee Dickey, merchant mariner, video interview
- George Allen Dow, Sr., merchant marine officer, audio interview
- Alfred Elam, Armed Guard - video interview
- John F. Fox, Jr., merchant mariner, video interview
- Harry C. Gebhart, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Paul Francis Goercke, merchant mariner, audio interview
- George Green Goodner, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Paul E. Granquist, merchant mariner, video interview
- Albert J. Gundy, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Roger Hanson, merchant mariner, video interview
- Cecil Elmer Harrison, merchant mariner, video interview
- Stephen J. Heck, merchant mariner, video interview
- Nelson J. Hedderman Jr., Armed Guard - two video interviews
- Richard Heinicke, Jr., merchant marine officer, video interview
- Clarence W. Hessell, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Kenneth Calvin Hoots, Armed Guard - video interview
- James Alvin Jolly, merchant mariner, video interview
- Carl Ward Jones, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Sven Eugene Keinanen, merchant marine officer, video interview
- George J. Kost, Armed Guard - video interview
- Andrew B. Lenhart, Armed Guard - video interview
- John James Landaiche, merchant mariner, video interview
- Melvin Edwin Lewis, Armed Guard - audio interview
- Mendall H. Long, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Wilmer Chalmers McCall, merchant mariner, video interview
- Dave McDowell, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Mike McHugh, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Harold S. Miller, merchant mariner, video interview
- Michael Louis Molinari, Armed Guard - audio interviews
- Paul Norman Moltane, Armed Guard - video interview
- J. O. Nelson, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Richard Lee Newman, merchant marine officer, audio interview
- Gordon T. O’Brien, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Joseph O'Leary, Armed Guard - audio interview
- Charles O. Olsen, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Michael E. Parker, merchant mariner, video interview
- Jess Sanford Perryman, Armed Guard - audio interview
- Arnold L. Peterson, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Charles Jesse Phillips, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Donald F. Prior, merchant mariner, video interview
- Paul Reffstrup, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Howard Bruce Richard, merchant mariner, video interview
- Alan G. Rollins, merchant mariner, audio interview
- William W. Romack, Armed Guard - audio interview
- Herman Eric Rosen, merchant marine officer, video interview
- John T. Roshto, merchant mariner, video interview
- William Harvey Scharrer, Sr., merchant marine officer, video interview
- Robert David Scheible, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Louis Tullio Schiavon, merchant marine officer - audio interview
- Lloyd T. Smith, merchant mariner, video interview
- James Harding Stancil, merchant marine officer, video interview
- James A. Swann, merchant mariner, audio interview
- Seymour Warshaw, merchant marine officer, video interview
- Frank Anthony Weber, merchant mariner, audio interview
- SS AMERICAN VICTORY: "In Their Own Words" -
four oral histories
- SS AMERICAN VICTORY - audio file, memories of retired seamen
Personal Stories
- 11 Against the Sun
- 13 Days Adrift
- 83 Days: The Survival of Seaman Izzi
- Ross Helmer Apland, Armed Guard
- ENS William T. Bailey, Armed Guard officer
- Moses Barker, Armed Guard
- Julius Bellin, Armed Guard
- John Brambora, merchant mariner
- Carl "Kak" Caccese, Armed Guard (very large file, may be slow loading)
- Lyle H. Cate, Armed Guard
- Louis D. Chirillo, merchant marine officer
- Bertram O. Christensen, merchant mariner
- Richard Allen Cooper, merchant marine officer
- Robert Cusick, merchant marine officer
- Bob Davis, Armed Guard
- Nicholas DiSano, Armed Guard (very large file, may be slow loading; click on link "Dad's WWII Diary.pdf")
- Rev. Buck Donaldson, Armed Guard
- John Matthew Edgar, Armed Guard
- Don Ellwood, merchant mariner
- Henry Elrod, merchant marine officer
- John Patrick Fedelen, Armed Guard
- Robert "Dick" Fitz, Armed Guard
- Harold E. Flockhart, merchant mariner
- Howard Catton Gilbert, Armed Guard
- William Goodness, Armed Guard
- James Philip Grant, merchant marine officer
- John Calvin Graves, Armed Guard
- Friends and Time, wartime memories of a girl from Russia
- Earl F. Haferbecker, Armed Guard
- Joseph August Halerz, Armed Guard
- Charles J. Hayes, Armed
Guard
- Ray H. Higgins, merchant mariner
- Albelo Hilginio, Sr., Armed Guard
- Roy Hoglund, merchant mariner, and Jean Hoglund, U.S. Navy
- E. O. "Eddie" Humiston, merchant mariner
- Warren Johnson, Armed Guard
- Dale H. Kuhlman, Armed Guard
- Vincent Philip Kuleski, Armed Guard
- Larry LaFontaine, Armed Guard
- Richard Lowe, Armed Guard
- James C. Marshall, U.S. Army Transport Service
- Richard G. Matthiesen, merchant mariner
- Theodore "Ted" McConley, Armed Guard
- John H. McDonald, Armed Guard
- William F. Nesser, merchant mariner
- George Normoyle, Armed Guard; first transcript, second transcript
- Gerald (Jerry) Norton, Armed Guard
- Paul J. Olsen, Sr., Armed Guard (very large file, may be
slow loading)
- Thomas N. Parlon, Armed Guard officer
- Joseph Pauro, Armed Guard
- Henry B. Rehder, merchant mariner
- Herman W. Reuss, merchant mariner
- George Ringer, Australian Merchant Navy
- Howard Stanley Rivet, merchant mariner
- Letter to ENS J.W. Sharpe, Armed Guard commanding officer, SS WASHINGTON IRVING, from the ship's officers
- Percy Ray Sharp, Armed Guard
- Kevin Smith and SS SORRENTO
- Ben Stephenson, Armed Guard
- John Stokes, Armed Guard
- Otto W. Thiele, merchant marine seaman and officer
- Topeka Armed Guard veterans
- Leonard Eaton Varnam, merchant mariner
- ENS Kopl Kay Velsole, Armed Guard officer
- Jesse I. Vicera, merchant mariner
- Vignettes From a Sailor – World War II
- WAVES Gunnery Instructor
- Howard V. Wilson, merchant mariner
- World War II Vets Discuss [Armed] Guard Duty
- Cyril J. Wyche, merchant mariner
- LT(jg) Carl F. Zeidler, Armed Guard officer; see page 1, page 2
Stories of ships
- HMS ACTIVITY
- SS ADONIRAM JUDSON
- SS ALICE PALMER
- SS ARTHUR MIDDLETON
- SS ATLANTIC, a story of
the Murmansk Run
- SS BENJAMIN SMITH
- SS BLACK POINT, the last U-boat victim
- SS BLACK POINT
- SS BLACK POINT
- SS BLACK POINT, The Battle of Point Judith
- SS CAPE SAN JUAN
- SS SS CASTILLA
- SS EL COSTON
- SS EAST INDIAN
- SS FORT LEE, Never Seen or Heard from Again
- SS GULFBELLE and SS GULFLAND, not identified by name but these are likely the ships involved; October 21, 1943
- SS HAGAN
- SS HENRY BERGH
- SS HENRY R. MALLORY
- SS HENRY R. MALLORY
- SS JEAN NICOLET, a story of Japanese atrocity
- SS JEREMIAH M. DAILY
- SS JOHN BURKE
- SS JOHN D. GILL
- SS JOHN DAVENPORT, contributed by Ann Phillips, daughter of Walter Pudelkiewicz, who was aboard at the time
- SS JOHN G. WHITTIER
- Wreck of the SS JOHN P. GAINES
- SS JOHN LYKES
- MV LAKE OSWEYA
- SS LEOPOLDVILLE
- SS MANUELA
- SS MARCUS DALY
- SS OKLAHOMA
- SS ONEIDA
- SS OTSEGO
- SS OURANG MEDAN, Mystery Ship
- SS PATRICK J. HURLEY
- Loss of SS PAUL HAMILTON
- SS PETER SYLVESTER; for other accounts of the loss of this ship and the rescue of its survivors, see HMS ACTIVITY; Cyril Kohl Conway; and Boley M. Szewc
- SS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
- USAT PRESIDENT FILLMORE
- SS RACELAND
- SS RACELAND
- SS RAPHAEL SEMMES
- SS R P RESOR, The Death of a Tanker
- SS ROBERT E. PEARY - The Liberty Ship Built in
World Record Time
- SS ROBERT NEIGHBORS
- The Sinking of the SS SAMUEL HEINTZELMAN
- SS SCAPA FLOW
- Torpedoing of the SS SCOTTSBURG
- SS STEPHEN HOPKINS - Duel to the Death
- SS SUMNER I. KIMBALL
- SS SWIFTSCOUT
- The Sinking of SS TJINEGARA
- SS TJISALAK, a story of Japanese atrocity
- SS TOPA TOPA
- SS WILLIAM H WELCH
- SS WILLIAM L. MARSHALL
- SS WILLIAM W. LORING
- SS ZAANDAM
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