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Although Archibald Higgins thought he would fly home. That did not happen. He sailed on a ship from Manila. The voyage...

Clark Wackerman was born in March 1926 in Brighton, New York, the oldest of three children. His father worked as a...

Robert Addison was born in Akron, Ohio in December 1922. Growing up he was very athletic and played many different...

They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotators Note: from the USS...

Salvatore Famularo remembers it was an all-out war when he went. His most memorable moment was getting out of Iwo Jima...

Paul Dietzel is very proud of his service during World War 2. When he first came to LSU he was 30 years old. He did not...

In mid 1942, Jack Leaming and approximately 60 other prisoners of war, POWs, were transferred to a camp in Osaka. The...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

Fred Bronfin went from Port Hueneme to San Diego for overseas deployment with Argus-10. He was then sent to Maui for...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

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