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[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

Harold Gournay was born in Eunice, Louisiana in 1919. He grew up and attended school in Eunice. He graduated from high...

Henry Heim suffered all night long [Annotator's Note: Heim is referring to being injured during the Japanese attack on...

Henry H. Mahier was born in July 1926 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up in the country north of town, on family...

Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...

Before he got married, Donald Popham tried to enlist, but failed the physical because of his eyesight. His rating was...

Because of the discrimination in the Army caste system, Francis Resta said he came to really hate the Army. But when...

Milton Moxon was born in Sparta, Michigan in March 1925 and grew up in Grand Rapids. He was the fifth of seven children...

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

Barbara Pathe was born in Bethel, Ohio. She lived there until she was eight years old. She had an older brother, an...

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