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Raymond Downs was in the water for almost 20 hours with no food. On the horizon, he could see 27 shrimping boats. He...

Spencer Yancey remembers that all of their equipment was pretty basic, and there were not a lot of new improvements....

Norman Mineta followed his father's lead following his military discharge. Mineta's father had made a career in the...

Dr. Norman Francis left the Army after two years. The men he was with were drafted after college. They were in from...

Around 1938, Shirley Sandy Schulman began dating her future husband, Hyman, while they were in high school. Her parents...

Alexander Laughlin heard his stepfather, Tommy Hitchcock [Annotator’s Note: Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was an American polo...

The judges at the essay contest [Annotators Note: in New York] were distinguished writers and figureheads. Erickson...

George Kearney was living on Magazine Street [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] when he went to work for...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She grew up in Pass...

Margaret Kerry spent most of her time isolated. When she heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Herbert Weatherwax served in the Army as a communications specialist in Headquarters...

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