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Pearson Riddle was born in Pensacola, North Carolina and grew up in the country. His father had a farm of about 120...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

Glenn Frazier started the Bataan Death March with the other Allied POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] late in...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Wanda Damberg got up to go to the bathroom one morning and saw a nun along the way [Annotator’s Note: Damberg was in...

Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...

After the conclusion of World War 2, Alvin Sniff was sent back to New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana...

John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

After the war, Clayton Hall's mother used to tell him that she would hear him in the night hollering that they needed...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

Lionel Lopez had an M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. He had a...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

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