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Alton R. Barnes was born in December 1923 in Oxford, Alabama. He grew up in Talladega County where his father was in...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....

Carl Caffarel was at Columbia University in New York, taking final exams [Annotator's Note: which were abandoned], when...

There were many gold stars in the windows around Lorraine Mesken's home, and she remembers helping to console mothers...

Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...

Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...

Merlin Smith left Oakland on a shakedown cruise on his new ship [Annotator's Note: USS Goshen (APA-108)]. Afterward,...

When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

Calvin Elliott did not use the G.I. Bill. He had an occupation. He worked with women all of his life. When he retired,...

Robert Addison was born in Akron, Ohio in December 1922. Growing up he was very athletic and played many different...

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