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Ray Fitzgerald was born in March 1922 in Union County in North Mississippi. He grew up there in a rural home. The draft...

Herman Molen was born in August 1923 in Greenville, Texas. He was studying to be a minister. He was ordained. When the...

James Read Kirk was 17 years old and in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman joined the Navy on 18 August 1937.] Whitman really enjoyed the Navy and had a hard...

James Joseph Bollich was born in August 1921 south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. has a Biblical first name; in French it means Moses. His family left Spain during the Inquisition [...

Robert Wolff had his first flying experience when he was 10 or 12 years old. He used to make model airplanes for fun....

Bernard Baker was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February 1924. He grew up with nine siblings. An older...

John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He attended school there. He did not have any college when Pearl...

Erico J. Catalano was born in Brooklyn, New York in June 1920. Catalano was the fourth of ten children. His father...

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