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Joseph Blouin was born in March 1923 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up there. He had a brother who was coming home...

Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

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

Frank Hartzell was born in January 1925 in Buffalo, New York. After six months, his family moved to the Philadelphia...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was born in Elgin, North Dakota in January 1926. His father had a farm, but they moved in 1941 to...

Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...

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

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...

Perry Strait received no benefits from his service in the Merchant Marines or the Maritime Service. It was difficult to...

Carl Landwehr was born in 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never had a lot of money, but they never really...

Eugene Henry Gierka was born in August 1924 in Albany, New York. His parents came from Poland. His father ran a butcher...

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