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Paul Hissey was born in 1922 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father was a Navy man who served in World War 1. His family...

Herbert W. Ridyard was in high school when he listened to President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...

Bernard Baker was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February 1924. He grew up with nine siblings. An older...

Jack Wilt was born in February 1927 in Kent, Ohio. He grew up with one younger sister. He played basketball and other...

Leonard Gaj enlisted in March 1943 because he thought it was his duty to protect the United States of America. It was...

Leon Bass voluntarily entered the military. He was in a movie theater when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

William L. Snow was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1924, the middle child of three boys born to a father who owned a...

Cawthon B. Perdue Jr., known as C.B. to family and friends, was born in El Dorado, Arkansas in 1925. He graduated high...

Virgil Faust was born in Windber, Pennsylvania, an old gold mining town. [Annotator's Note: Faust was born in August...

Leila Morrison attended a nursing program in Chattanooga, Tennessee [Annotator's Note: at Baroness Erlanger Hospital,...

Kelly Kuwayama was drafted a year before Pearl Harbor and entered the Army. He was assigned to a coastal artillery unit...

Meade Willis was born in Plaucheville, Louisiana. His mother died when he was four years old, and he did not get along...

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