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Wallace G. Hurley was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1923. His mother and father divorced. His alcoholic father headed...

Lily Sawada and her family arrived in Poston, Arizona [Annotator’s Note: this was part of the relocation of Japanese-...

James Lee's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the attack itself [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Carl Beck joined the Army at 17 in November 1942. He was born in 1925. He had been working with his father during the...

Anthony Varuso grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana where his father had a food store. As a child, Varuso delivered...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

Joseph Romano was born in May 1923 in Marrero [Annotator's Note: Marrero, Louisiana]. Growing up, there were poor...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Dorothy Decker Ehlers was born in December 1931 in Long Beach, California and grew up there during the depression years...

Robert Rosendahl's squadron [Annotator's Note: 3rd Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group] was stationed at a gunnery...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

One of George Kearney's friends, who lives not far from him, was a ban saw operator who cut the notches for the keel...

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