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Lillian Hoover was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in August 1924. She grew up there. Her father was a contractor. She...

After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

James Roy Colquitt was born in September 1926 in Needmore, Alabama. He was one of nine children. His family lived on a...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

James Mather's most memorable experience of World War 2 was learning about the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note:...

George Hamilton was born in April 1922 in West Monroe, Louisiana. Hamilton lived in five states before he was six years...

Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

Jack D. Samuelson is a World War Two veteran. He was interviewed at 88 years of age in a senior citizens’ home. He met...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

Adolph William Amundson was sent to Jacksonville, Florida to train in multi-engine planes. He flew PBY’s [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

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