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Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

After one patrol during which he was carrying a heavy BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle], Richard...

Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

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

Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

After action in the Marshall Islands [Annotator's Note: Marshall Islands Campaign, 29 January to 22 February 1944,...

Living aboard the USS Enterprise was tough. Feightner slept in a hammock under a 5 inch gun mount. Other pilots bunked...

Peter Gallo was discharged as a PFC [Annotator's Note: Private First Class]. He began life as "kind of a sick kid," who...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

In 1940, Alfred A. Lingo was activated into the Army for one year at Hamilton Field [Annotator's Note: now Hamilton Air...

John Singlaub took his group of resistance fighters just south of the Loire River. A local mayor organized an...

The Saratoga [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3] was getting ready to leave San Diego for Pearl...

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