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Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

Haney Ambrose was born in 1922 in Baton, Rouge, Louisiana. His father was a carpenter and farmer during the Great...

Archie Kelley went to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after graduating from the United States...

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

George Vincent Ross was born in September 1926 in Albany, New York. He grew up there. He had one brother, Edward, and...

Harold Buell returned to the United States after his Air Group 2 on Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet (CV-12)] was...

For Earl Williams, the war liberated Black people a great deal. There were the Tuskegee Airman [Annotator's Note:...

As Ralph Weymouth approached the Japanese fleet, he saw that it was organized in a typical formation for ships at sea....

James Goodrich and his buddy dug a foxhole. His buddy put a big branch across the top of the hole. Later that night...

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

Peter Hebert served on Manicani Island [Annotator’s Note: Manicani Island, Leyte, the Philippines] after the war where...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

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