Hughes, Walter - Clip 1
Working on tugboats with his step-father in the 1930s; joining the Army in 1943, joining the paratroopers; fighting overseas, surviving the Waal River Crossing
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey
2014 January 10
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Dowling, William - Clip 2
Serving as a paratrooper during the Korean War; returning home and working at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn repairing U.S. Army transports; getting a job as a deckhand with a Cornell Steamship Co. tugboat
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2014 March 7
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