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Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

Mitchell Zimmer and the crew [Annotator's Note: of the submarine USS Snapper (SS-185)] knew that war was on the way. In...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

Robert “Bob” Bowron was born in Birmingham [Annotator’s Note: Birmingham, Alabama] in January 1927. He recalled when...

After Willie D. Knippers completed his medical field training at Camp Barkeley, Texas, he was sent to California for...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. was born in March 1920 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of eight children and was...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt worked in an art studio for an artist. He made picture frames and sometimes was used as a model....

William Lee Barnes was born in December 1926 in Cottondale, Florida. He started school in Saint Andrews, Florida but...

Elmer Koenig was born in July 1925 in Santa Ana, California. His older sister died in 1918. He grew up in Orange [...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

During the Battle of Surigao Strait, Mark Brannon said the USS Hutchins (DD-746) had spent almost all of its ammunition...

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