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Robert Dannehl was born in Iroquois County, Illinois in September 1926. He was the ninth child of 11 children. He knew...

Frank George Memory was a crewman on a submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Gato (SS-212)]. The boat was about 300 feet...

David Dawson used to listen to the radio. He would listen to the news program every day. A lot of the bad news was...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Joseph “Joe” Maynard was born in August 1922 in Oakley, Tennessee. He had three brothers and one sister. He was the...

James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...

Archie Kelley went to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after graduating from the United States...

Harold Buell attended Parsons College in Iowa [Annotator's Note: Fairfield, Iowa] on an athletic scholarship. He was an...

While Ruth Knutson was in WAVES, her husband-to-be was drafted. He was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox....

Robert Dannehl was playing softball with friends on a Sunday morning, and then came home where his mother and siblings...

Frank George Memory worked mainly with the officers [Annotator’s Note: Memory was assistant navigator aboard the USS...

In 1942 they began to realize that the Japanese were planning an assault on Port Moresby [Annotator's Note: New Guinea...

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