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After Parris Island, William Pierce went to Hingham, Massachusetts which housed a huge naval ammunition manufacturing...

Edwin Lamm was assigned to the Air Transport Command at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base [Annotator's Note: now Travis...

Richard Miralles was bombing the Philippines. A pilot had dropped two bombs into his bomb bay. The bombs blew up and...

Shows were important to George Colburn. Eddie Bracken [Annotator's Note: Edward Vincent Bracken, American entertainer]...

Richard Higgins was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in Sims Hospital. Higgins moved to Harrison, Maine when he was...

After boot camp, Norman Elliott was assigned to a newly-commissioned ship, the USS Pasadena (CL-65). From the Boston...

Martin Suter was sent to Colgate University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York], where he took part a pilot...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

Wilbur Rogers laughs at remembering the reward for picking up a downed pilot: ice cream. For each man a ship picked up...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells Marthe Cohn that she is going to switch to asking the American Spirit Award...

Willis Mills was born in July 1926 and grew up in Holyoke, Colorado. It was a small farming community. His father...

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