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Michael Maziarczyk was born in July 1922. He was raised on a farm in Cameron, Pennsylvania. His mother had 14 children...

Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of...

Albert Yamamoto had to wait for his United States citizenship to be verified before he could return to home from Japan...

David McKinley Blackwell entered the Army at Camp Polk [Annotator's Note: now Fort Polk in Vernon Parish, Louisiana]....

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

Marvin Tyson was born in July 1925 the Bronx, New York City, New York [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

Arthur Killam was born in San Francisco and lived there until he was six years old when he moved to San Jose,...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

After going aboard they were given some soap and a half a towel [Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey and many of the other...

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