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Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

After the war, Wiley did meet the island chief's grandson and granddaughter. The relatives of the chief came to the US...

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

Alvin Barnes entered Tokyo Bay [Annotator's Note: Tokyo Bay, Japan] after the war. His ship [Annotator's Note: USS...

In the fall of 1943, When Frank M. Heuer Sr.’s course at Hall-Scott Motor Car Company [Annotator’s Note: in Berkeley,...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum hated the Japanese during the war. They made sneak attacks with no warning. It was a blessing to...

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] paid a visit to the Kwajalein Islands [Annotator's...

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

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

Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...

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