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Boot camp for Louis Smith took place at Parris Island, South Carolina and he found it tough. They shaved his head to...

Francis Hurd was born in Woodhall, New York to parents who were farmers. When he was 16 years old he was forced to quit...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

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

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

Roy Uthes was born in June 1923. He had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up in a large home and was the youngest...

Elizabeth Barrett was at a loss, she said, as to her own husband's whereabouts or well being. When he got back to the...

Once while Frank Mancuso was out with his friends, they began talking about how bad things were getting in Germany,...

Nolan Ruiz was born in August 1924 near Donaldsonville, Louisiana. His father died when he was four years old and his...

Albert Reale was born in March 1925 in New Britain, Connecticut. He had a good childhood among his three brothers in a...

William Kahn was born in August 1925, to immigrant parents. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland where his father ran a...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

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