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Charles Brooks was born in Dallas, Texas. Life in the Great Depression was difficult. His mother had been widowed when...

Alfred Raymond Mosher was born in December 1921 in Adrian, Missouri. He recalled the Great Depression and how lots of...

After his brother was drafted into the infantry, Donald F. Goyette was accompanied by his parents when he went off for...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] shows the footage of "Marines at Tarawa" [...

While in Hawaii, Frank Faust treated crew members from submarines while they were on leave. Faust also taught first aid...

The Filipino people were great, just like any American doing the same thing. They were forced to be in a war. When Earl...

John Bradley [Annotator's Note: born in Manila, Philippines to an American father and Australian mother in 1936] cannot...

Robert J. "Bob" Brasel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. They had a side yard and, in the summer of 1936, when it...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

On the 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1942] they passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. The men were all excited...

Samuel Malta and the men in combat were just kids who were 18 or 19 years old. The combat troops felt they were...

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