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John Ream was born in November 1934 in the Philippine islands. His father was raised on a ranch in Idaho. He went to...

Edmund Durocher was born in Manhattan and moved to Queens when he was eight years old. He graduated from high school in...

Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...

Harold Buell flew his first combat mission at Midway on anti-submarine reconnaissance. He had only one prior experience...

Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs was born in December 1922 in New Haven Connecticut. His father was a World War 1 veteran who had a...

William Burkett was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] was not hard...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. and the interviewer informally chat for a few minutes prior to the start...

Edward Riedl was born in November 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] and grew up there. He...

Caroline Bailey Pratt was born in June 1932 in Manila, the Philippines. Her father worked for the National Bank and...

Walter Jacobs was born in Mississippi. His father worked a variety of jobs. Jacobs grew up on a farm that did not have...

A few weeks after the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942], Leon Williamson returned to Ewa [...

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