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William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

Robert J. "Bob" Brasel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. They had a side yard and, in the summer of 1936, when it...

James Oney was in Portland, Oregon after leaving his family farm in the middle of the summer [Annotator's Note: Summer...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

Still just a "number," Carl Rieman wound up at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opelika, Florida, the only ensign among...

Edward Bale went to Okinawa at the beginning of the assault as part of a deception force that did not land. The 2nd...

Cecil Ezell McLain stopped in Singapore before heading home and witnessed five people die and several people blinded by...

Adolfo V. Celaya was taken aboard the Basset [Annotator’s Note: USS Bassett (APD-73), which rescued 154 survivors of...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

Frank Stewart shows the interviewer a photograph that was taken at the naval hospital in San Diego. Bob Day had also...

Dee Wayne White served in Germany during his three-year deployment overseas. Shortly before being sent back to the...

Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

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