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Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

Warren Schmitt was born on 18 March 1921 in Hutchinson, Kansas. He had a younger brother named Gene who also served in...

Dorothy Decker Ehlers was born in December 1931 in Long Beach, California and grew up there during the depression years...

Wilbur Rogers was born in August 1925 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, the youngest of six boys and three girls. His wasn't a...

Thomas Wicker received orders to serve on an oilier, which he was not thrilled about. He graduated from Tulane...

Herbert Fontenot joined the Navy because it was the only branch that would accept him at 16 years of age. He loved his...

Jack Weiss was born in Elkhart, Indiana in June 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...

Norman Bussel worked building B-25 bombers [Annotator’s Note: North American B-25 Mitchell] at the Fisher Body plant [...

Bell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15th, 1918. Before the war, Bell had a business manufacturing...

Thomas Amico was born in June 1926, the fourth of four children of Italian immigrants who settled into an area called...

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