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Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

Lester M. Bornstein was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in February 1925. As a child he was very athletic and played a...

Robert Nichols Cresswell was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in April 1924. He grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania....

Coleen Perilloux Landry was born in February 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family owned a sugarcane plantation in...

Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

Hans Siverts remembers Sunday, 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Chester Biernacki and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] were on the way to Guadalcanal when they met up...

Darold Rice was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1925. During the Great Depression, Darold’s father worked in the Chevrolet...

Theodore Finkbeiner was the middle child between a brother and sister. He had just started Northeast Junior College [...

Roy Johnston was born in Emma, Louisiana and grew up in various settlements in the northwest of the state. His father...

Norris Elwyn Gwin was born in June 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an only child. His father was a veteran of World War...

Herbert Weatherwax [Annotator's Note: Mr. Weatherwax's name is actually Clarence Herbert Weatherwax] was born in...

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