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Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

[Annotator's Note: While he was living in Detroit, Michigan and working as a streetcar driver,] Andrew Petrus received...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore if his meeting a variety of types of people in the service...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. witnessed the end of the fighting on Wake Island. It was chaotic. He [Annotator’s Note: then US...

Frank V. Tarkington joined the Indiana National Guard, but was kicked out because it came to light that he was too...

Andrew Petrus [Annotator's Note: with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] invaded...

Schuyler Lininger was sent to the Pacific in August 1945. He was part of the replacement troops coming in for the...

Before the war, Jack Leaming had a Japanese friend in the second grade, whose parents sold Japanese clothing on the...

Donald H. "Don" Bee was sent from Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake...

Jack Leaming was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1919. When he was three months old, his mother moved to Wildwood...

Francis "Frank" Borrell was born in Beacon, New York, 60 miles north of New York City and ten miles from West Point [...

Earl Wergin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in May 1927. As a boy, he and his family moved to New York City [Annotator...

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