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  • Dawson, David Entrance into Service

    David Dawson was born in October 1924 in Tampa, Florida. They moved to Gary, Indiana when he was two years old. His father ran a street car there.

  • Dawson, David Family Life

    David Dawson was in Hollywood, Florida at Navy gunnery school.

  • Dawson, David Gunnery Instructor

    David Dawson remembers they did a lot of close order drilling.

  • Dawson, David Reflections

    David Dawson used to listen to the radio. He would listen to the news program every day. A lot of the bad news was propaganda.

  • Dawson, Ruffin Entrance into Service

    Ruffin Walker Dawson was born in Saint Francisville, Louisiana in 1924 [Annotator's Note: November 1924]. He grew up on a farm.

  • Dawson, Ruffin Island Hopping

    Ruffin Walker Dawson [Annotator's Note: with the 51st Defense Battalion] found out he was going overseas in February 1944.

  • Dawson, Ruffin Postwar Life

    There was a lot of Uncle Sam [Annotator's Note: Uncle Sam; a common national personification of the federal government of the United States] p

  • Dawson, Ruffin Reflections

    The South [Annotator's Note: the Southern states in the United States] was poor and the Northern states were better off.

  • Dawson, Zhanna Becoming a Pianist

    Zhanna Dawson began piano lessons. The teacher was a friend of the family who was asked to do the favor of teaching her to play.

  • Dawson, Zhanna David Dawson

    Zhanna Dawson's husband David was in the Mitropoulos Orchestra [Annotator's Note: Dimitri Mitropoulos was a famed Greek conductor, pianis

  • Dawson, Zhanna Early Life

    Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson is the subject of a book authored by her son [Annotator's Note: Hiding in the Spotlight by Greg Dawson].

  • Dawson, Zhanna Entertaining the Wehrmacht

    Zhanna Dawson worked with a tuner to tune the orphanage piano [Annotator's Note: because of her playing talent, Dawson was assigned by the mus

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