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Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

Oscar Culp was deployed to American Samoa [Annotator's Note: after joining the Marine Corps and training in 1943]. On a...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was an engine operator who was on the ground...

Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...

Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...

Frank Pantuso was born in November 1925 in San Antonio, Texas. He says his mother and father worked hard to support the...

Robert Lowe was born in Hutton, Louisiana in July 1922. He worked his way through high school during the Great...

Joe Clapper remembers being on a date at a movie theater on Pearl Harbor Day. When he came out, newsboys were peddling...

When he set sail, Gerald West had never heard of Guadalcanal. He didn't learn about it until he was about to attack it...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

Louis Burg initially wanted to fly planes in the military, but his family did not want him to. His mother tore up his...

Norman Hatch was in New York at the March of Time [Annotator's Note: an American newsreel series sponsored by Time...

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