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William Harvey served on a converted yacht named the USS Onyx (PYc-5). Onyx was 125 feet long with two diesel driven...

Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith's oldest brother, John Joseph, whose nickname was "Jody", enlisted in the Navy prior...

Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior was born in February 1926 in Arden, Montana. Custer's [Annotator's Note: US Army Major...

George Mitchell was born in Albany, Georgia in 1924. His father owned a barbershop with his brothers and two other men...

Richard Guthrie was born in November 1933 at the Quantico Marine Corps Air Station in Quantico, Virginia. His father...

On VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945] Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in...

Margaret Kerry's mother heard there were producers and stars that went to the Hollywood Canteen [Annotator's Note:...

Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...

Marietta Baham worked at Jackson Barracks [Annotator's Note: Louisiana National Guard base in New Orleans, Louisiana]...

Thomas W. Gillette was born in Bath, Maine in 1931. When he was a small child, his mother left him and his father. As a...

Mallie Mellon appreciates that people are now interested in knowing what Home Front workers like her did at home to...

Calvin Moret was still a 19 year old teenager when his mother pinned his wings on him. The war in the Pacific ended...

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