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Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Jack Leaming sees the war as something they had to live with. They had to do the best they could to be happy and have a...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

Hugh Wingo was stationed in Galveston [Annotator’s Note: Galveston, Texas] for three or four months. They got the news...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

The closer Carey Suratt got to Japan, the more aggressive things became. On his second trip to Leyte, the 459 [...

Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner adopted a boy in California and a girl in Michigan. He has a grandson in Arizona and a...

Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was a Navy Armed Guard and guarded US Merchant Marine ships during World War 2....

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