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J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

Roy Boreen felt that World War 2 did not change his values in life although the war did have an impact on his life...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

Joe G. Casillas was born in San Pedro, California in October 1925. He grew up around Pacoima [Annotator's Note: Pacoima...

Allen Lamm was born in 1924 in Denham Springs, Louisiana. He grew up there and can remember the physical punishment he...

Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

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