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Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...

Eugene Corson was born in March 1922 in Stanford, Connecticut. In 1936, his father got a job working on submarines in...

Cecil Ezell McLain was born in November 1921 in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up through the Great Depression in Robertsdale...

Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...

George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

Jack Leaming and the crew of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) left Pearl Harbor and attacked the Marshall Islands in February...

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

Paul Gibfried was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in September 1924. When he joined the Navy, he was investigated by the...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Loren Bennett was born in October 1927 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He did not have any siblings....

Back in the United States, the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) went into dry dock, and Lebow went to Texas on leave [Annotator...

James Warren David was born in Youngsville, Louisiana in January 1926. During the Great Depression, his father and...

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