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Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer was born in Savannah, Georgia in March 1918...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

Peter Gallo was in the construction division in the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian Conservation Corps] before going...

[Annotator’s Note: Construction vehicles can be heard in the background throughout the segment, as well as someone in...

Donald F. Goyette boarded the SS John Land [Annotator's Note: USS John Land (AP-167)], a makeshift troop ship, that did...

Keith Kiefer was born in January 1957 in Longview, Texas. In school, he did not get taught about World War 2 until...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

Lyle Mitchell remembers his wife had to work when she was brought to Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

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