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Harvey Segal was born in May 1925 in Roxbury, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston]....

M. Edward Melton was born in Henderson, Kentucky in June 1925. He had a happy childhood. They had no money, but neither...

William Howard was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921. He lived in Fort Worth until he was 11 years old then they moved...

Hillman James Prestridge was born in September 1924 in Cragford, Alabama, a small town of about 400 people. He had one...

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

Vincent Losada was born in Cleveland, Ohio in May 1925. His parents were both immigrants from Spain. His father was a...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Robert Zawada was 16 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He graduated from high school in 1942. He did not think...

Robert Rupp liked the military. He decided while he was in school that if he was going to war, he would rather be an...

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

Charles R. Smith was a senior in high school on 8 December [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941]. They were asked to go...

Ralph Sykes was born in March 1924 in Greenville, Pennsylvania. As a boy, his family moved to a farm outside of...

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