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Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

Lyle Mitchell met his wife while he was in school at RIT [Annotator’s Note: Rochester Institute of Technology in...

Adolph Wilson fought through some of the worse jungles on Bougainville. It had everything imaginable. It rained every...

Edward Allesandro said that most people are surprised to hear that the Coast Guard was fighting in World War 2. The USS...

Floyd James Reissig does not think the war changed him too much but helped him grow up. It did not affect his marriage...

Howard Robert Charles became a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: after the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30) in...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior's experience in the Navy was exciting. He always enjoyed coming through and seeing the...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine began attending school in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: the Santo Tomas...

Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was sent to...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Paul Kerchum returned to the United States after being a prisoner of war to the Japanese for four years. His ship...

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