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David R. Saunders was born in December 1922 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father was a...

Monroe Scherer was born in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn, New York] in March 1926. He lived in Manhattan [...

Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a 1st class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion] was stationed...

Leo Denault was always singing in the shower. He loved music. They put on a show. They built a stage with a roof on it...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

Buck Donaldson was headed to LSU [Annotator’s Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]. He had a...

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] was at Indiantown...

William Roy was on the USS Yorktown [Annotator's Note: CV-5] when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Yorktown was at Pier 7...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

When Charles Wesley Borders was not flying, he had some reading material and records. They would also play ball. There...

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