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William Beaman was born in October 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, the only boy of three children. His father died when he was...

David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

William Leibold has been contacted numerous times by groups attempting to research various things. Leibold noted how...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

The Japanese were treated wrongly and were put into concentration camps [Annotator's Note: forced relocation and...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...

The Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] was gone when Feightner arrived at Pearl Harbor so he went down...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for submarine duty on 11 February 1943 and was called up a week later. He did not have a...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was born in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York] in September 1926. He grew...

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