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Harold Bergbower completed high school then entered the service at age 19. He was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was...

Frank L. Lombardo was born in January 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended a boarding school in Covington,...

Robert Oplinger participated in several battles before Okinawa. It took three months for the United States for defeat...

Gail Halvorsen was born in October 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his family moved to Garland, Utah. He competed...

Stegmeier was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1922. At the time of the interview he is 85 years old. He attended Grandview...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Floyd Dumas' father worked for the New York Central Railroad in Malone, New York as a boilermaker. Dumas had three...

Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) were assigned to the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The...

Monty Joe Boitnott would like to be thought of as being in the largest and bloodiest war and they won. However,...

Stella Sarnacki found out that her father died from causes of the war like the gas. She does not remember her...

The day after the attack [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor], Fred Aldridge...

Albert Reale thought the Japanese were miserable people, and seeing the surviving soldiers from Okinawa reinforced his...

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