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Robert Leroy Shirkey was born in Vliets, Kansas in April 1924. He grew up on a farm with eight brothers and sisters....

Lisle Neher was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in August 1924. Life in Oshkosh was wonderful. There was a lot to do and...

Rosemarie Weber went to school in the camp but didn't learn very much. She didn't finish 8th grade. Learning wasn't the...

Joseph Daquana completed submarine training in New London [Annotator’s Note: New London, Connecticut]. During his...

Robert Powers was called back to the service for Korea [Annotator's Note: the Korean War]. He had been honorably...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1922. His father was a civil service employee....

Dale LeBlanc was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and grew up like most every other American boy during the depression....

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

John Cassidy majored in mining engineering during his first year at the University of Alabama, but he eventually...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

Archie Kelley was born in the Naval gun factory in Washington, D.C. [Annotator's Note: Washington Navy Yard in...

Jack Skaggs was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1922. He grew up during the Great Depression. His father was a truck driver...

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