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Remi Kidder was born in 1926 in Arnaudville, Louisiana. Raised on a farm, Kidder's father was always busy with the...

Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

James "Jim" Marshall was born in August 1923 in Reading, Kansas. He grew up on a farm with his six siblings. His family...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...

William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division]...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Jack Thornhill went to see the destroyer on exhibit in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: the USS Kidd (DD-661)]. Even...

William Leibold was topside with O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane had been the commanding...

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