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Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

Harold Ward remembers that it was quiet after they secured from general quarters. Around three in the afternoon they...

Martin L. Suter was born in January 1921, in Rochester, New York. He had a brother and sister growing up, but he was...

James "Jimmy" Elam Newsom was born in Oakland, Louisiana in 1921. He grew up and lived in Louisiana until the war...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

John Gehrett was sent to a Navy supply school in conjunction with Harvard Business School [Annotator's Note: at Harvard...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

Arthur L. Eads met his wife not long after he returned home from World War 2. He married her in February 1946. He...

Dr. Robert Beynon was born in August 1924 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1942 and enlisted in the Navy....

Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...

Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...

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