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Guy Stern had come to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1937 when he was 15 years old to escape Nazi Germany. He tried, but...

Henry Heim suffered all night long [Annotator's Note: Heim is referring to being injured during the Japanese attack on...

Bernard Friedenberg had his basic training at Fort Hancock. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he was working with his...

Robert L. Williams was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1922 and raised in Park Hills. His life was fairly boring until...

John L. Cowan did not know or care what a Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic...

Alois Kopp was pleased that the two atomic bombs were dropped. They saved lives in the long run. Both Allied and...

Cleston Stell was born in Alvarado, Texas in 1926. The family moved to Fort Worth when he was young. During the 1930s,...

There was no way to avoid the war. Japan attacked a US territory [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

William Splichal was born in May 1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska. His father worked for the city and his mother raised the...

Bell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15th, 1918. Before the war, Bell had a business manufacturing...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

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