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Walter Jacobs was born in Mississippi. His father worked a variety of jobs. Jacobs grew up on a farm that did not have...

Theodore Marolda received orders to board a transport bound for the Solomon Islands after it was discovered the...

Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...

At Camp Crowder [Annotator's Note: in Neosho, Missouri], Lester Caplan was originally trained as a radio repairman, but...

Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll. The battery had an old 5 inch 51 gun [...

Gene Alair did not find Navy life difficult. He really enjoyed it. After recieving his commission, he was assigned to...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese, was forced to work in the Mitsubishi mine number 11 [Annotator’s Note: in...

Alvin Barnes was temporarily assigned to the USS Indianapolis [Annotator's Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] for one day...

Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

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