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Alfred Dearman was born in June 1930 in Abilene, Texas. He was an orphan who was adopted at three days old by an older...

Jack Skaggs realized that he had been on a long journey in his life. That journey has brought him pride and enjoyment....

Albert Simon went to school until to the seventh grade. He had to go to work on the farm in the third grade. He had to...

Norman Elliott was born in November 1926 and raised in East Hartford, Connecticut. He had an older brother. Their...

Edmund Durocher landed on Guadalcanal weighing 156 pounds and left weighing 126. He had no socks because they had...

James Thomas Womack arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] around 1941. He was on patrol duty...

On 7 December 1941, Theodore Pavlovich, along with many of his fellow riflemen, was on their barracks roof using the...

William Lutz hear about the Japanese torturing the Americans. When he returned home, he read about the atrocities...

William Leibold never stopped believing that he would make it home to his wife. The reunion with his wife on his parent...

Cecil Ezell McLain was born in November 1921 in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up through the Great Depression in Robertsdale...

Edward Bale spent the first night on Tarawa sleeping next to a disabled LVT [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

Marthe Cohn was the chief of a hospital at the DMZ [Annotator's Note: the Demilitarized Zone, Vietnam; then French...

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