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Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Holly Rees was born in January 1926 in Prescott, Arizona. Although he grew up during the Great Depression, his father...

Wilbur Rogers said that everything he did [Annotator's Note: during his time in the US Navy] was before he was 21 years...

Rob Roy Ratliff was discharged from the Marine Corps and then used the G.I. Bill to attend American University in...

Paul Amrod was born in November 1926 in Saugerties, New York, the tenth of 11 children. His father, a Lebanese...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

There was one radio station in Corpus Christi [Annotator's Note: Corpus Christi, Texas] at the time Benjamin Albert...

Harvey Mittleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was...

[Annotator's Note: A person appears in the background throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus was born in Bridgeville,...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

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