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Joseph Blouin was born in March 1923 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up there. He had a brother who was coming home...

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

Martin Jacobson was back in Pearl Harbor, having just missed the Battle of Leyte Gulf [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Perry Strait received no benefits from his service in the Merchant Marines or the Maritime Service. It was difficult to...

Paul Pizzolongo was born in February 1923 in Bronx, New York. His father picked numbers for the bookies and his mom did...

Robert Heller was born in December 1921 in Lake Wood, Ohio and became a member of the United States Army's 91st Bomb...

Bernard Friedenberg had his basic training at Fort Hancock. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he was working with his...

Boot camp for Louis Smith took place at Parris Island, South Carolina and he found it tough. They shaved his head to...

Erwin Blonder was sent to a hospital in Illinois for his trench foot. He remembers another incident regarding his...

Joseph Rockforte was born in 1922 in what is now Plaquemine, Louisiana. After he was born his father moved the family...

Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

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