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Henry A. Tacket began training at Treasure Island in San Francisco for his assignment to a new destroyer. That was...

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...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

Gatewood was born in Decatur, Nebraska in 1921. He lived there until he went into the service. He was in his first...

Thomas Amico was born in June 1926, the fourth of four children of Italian immigrants who settled into an area called...

Waldeman Czaban, nicknamed Curly, was born of Polish decent in Detroit, Michigan in 1925. His father was employed as an...

Lionel Baxter served in the 941st Field Artillery in Battery A [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery...

Elizabeth Gibbens was born in January 1920 in Corning, New York. Her father, a schoolteacher at the time, moved the...

Alois Kopp was pleased that the two atomic bombs were dropped. They saved lives in the long run. Both Allied and...

Thomas Wicker received orders to serve on an oilier, which he was not thrilled about. He graduated from Tulane...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

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