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Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Robert Addison was born in Akron, Ohio in December 1922. Growing up he was very athletic and played many different...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

For Kenneth Dwight Wells, the most difficult part of fighting against the Japanese on Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart was a student at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston,...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

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