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Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

Marvin Hill was born in November 1925 in Louisa County, Virginia, the only male child of six children. His father was...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

Edwin Henlebin was born in 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri, and lived there his entire life, except for when he was in the...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Harold Buell returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: after flying with the "Cactus Airforce" off Henderson Field on...

Allen Lamm was born in 1924 in Denham Springs, Louisiana. He grew up there and can remember the physical punishment he...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Wilbur Rogers was born in August 1925 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, the youngest of six boys and three girls. His wasn't a...

Jack Yusen still frequently thinks about the men who died [Annotator's Note: when his ship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (...

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