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Ralph Burch was born in August 1923 in Port Arthur [Annotator’s Note: Port Arthur, Texas]. He lived close to the canals...

Fiske Hanley II was selected to go to flight engineer school after basic training because of his college degree in...

Retracing his steps, Steve McMurray mentioned that on the way back from Iwo Jima he did a lot of pencil portraits of...

J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...

Rivers Richardson King was born in October 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Great Depression effected his family...

James Pringle was born in Sumter, South Carolina in November 1925. Life growing up was rough. He worked in grocery...

Sam S. McKeel graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and was offered...

When the atomic bombs were dropped, Fiske Hanley and his fellow prisoners were totally unaware of the events, but...

Another frightening experience Gravois had was during the Battle of the Matanikau River. For the battle they [Annotator...

Joseph Daquana completed submarine training in New London [Annotator’s Note: New London, Connecticut]. During his...

Edmund Durocher was born in Manhattan and moved to Queens when he was eight years old. He graduated from high school in...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

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