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Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer. His job was to make sure the plane was...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...

A few days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Joseph DeMott saw the devastation. With five battleships sunk or...

Martha Tolles was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in 1921. She grew up in New York...

Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...

William Isham Davis was born in Topeka, Kansas in March 1921. His father worked in a large furniture store and Jack...

Ralph Sykes was born in March 1924 in Greenville, Pennsylvania. As a boy, his family moved to a farm outside of...

After the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Rex...

Harold Beal is glad he served and would do it again. Somebody must take care of the country. When he talks to children...

Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

Marion Labauve was born in February 1924 in Plaquemine, Louisiana. He was in the depression [Annotator's Note: the...

James Craig was a corporal and knew shorthand. A commanding officer wanted him to be his secretary. Craig did not want...

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