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David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...

Mervin Jensen was born in 1926 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. There were ten kids in the family. His mom and dad raised them...

Richard Higgins joined the Marine Corps in 1940. He was set on the Marine Corps from the beginning. He never considered...

John Edward Love and hundreds of other POWs' [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] hell ship [Annotator's Note: unmarked...

Fred Bergeron saw three carriers as well as battle ships, cruisers and destroyers spread out over a very wide area. The...

Sterling Cale was on night duty at the shipyard dispensary in the Navy yard before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had...

Air Corps training for Lincoln Piazzo consisted of primary, basic and advanced programs, and was conducted in three...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

James Bowie knew the war was still going on when he was going home. Many of the men had war souvenirs. They were told...

Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Frank Savage was surprised to be relieving the 31st Infantry Division on Mindanao. That division was hit hard in the...

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