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Delbert Franklin Hackman was born on a farm near Havana, Illinois in September 1919. He grew up on a farm and worked...

Lorenzo Dow Crews was born in April 1924 in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee]. His father worked as a...

[Annotator’s Note: A dog panting is audible in the background throughout segment.] William Batty was born in December...

James J. McDermott was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in October 1920. He worked for a brick manufacturing plant and...

Wayne Lebsack was born in July 1925 in Great Bend, Kansas. He and his two sisters grew up in Galatia, Kansas where his...

Robert Fitz was born in March 1925 in South Bridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children. He was very young...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey joined the US Army Air Forces and was sent to California in 1943.] He was so excited....

Carl Payne heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

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

George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

Wilbur Thomas was born in March 1923 and grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania with two older brothers. During the Great...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

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