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Harry Carlson was born in October 1924 in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He grew up there as a single child. His father...

Mason Dorsey was born in July 1925 in Chester, South Carolina. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

About eight months after the Helena went down [Annotator's Note: the USS Helena (CL-50) was sunk during the Battle of...

Aaron Baumgarten was born in 1922 in New York, New York, the fifth of the five sons in his family. His father worked in...

Norman Riggsby had a postwar career that was not related to his wartime experiences. His most memorable thing about...

Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

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

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

Sherwin Callander's voyage to Australia consisted of stops in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. It was winter and the ship...

His service as a Nisei [Annotator's Note: first generation Japanese-American] soldier was important to Walter Oka...

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Martin Jacobson was back in Pearl Harbor, having just missed the Battle of Leyte Gulf [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

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