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Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

Leon Griffith was unloading mules [Annotator's Note: as part of the 98th Field Artillery Battalion] and the Japanese...

Wesley Waggoner remembers the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Louis Andriano graduated high school at 17 [Annotator's Note: January 1944]. His father wanted him to work but he could...

Rufus Harris does not recall celebrating the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

Frederick Ellis was born in Amite, Louisiana in October 1924. His father's business failed in the Great Depression and...

Paul J. Frisco's first combat action aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) escorting the fast carriers during the invasion of...

Edmond Guidry took a troop ship out of San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] with no escort and...

The next bad thing to happen was when Childers tried to fire at a Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese fighter aircraft],...

Otis Kight grew up near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and nearby Stone Mountain [Annotator's Note: Stone...

Robert Perry was born in Ebenezer, Louisiana, near Crowley [Annotator's Note: Crowley, Louisiana], in November 1926. He...

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