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Gus Gikas was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in April 1921. His dad was the town hat maker. Gikas moved to north Texas when...

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

After Pearl Harbor, Herbert Gross was drafted. He had a brief basic training program. By August 1942, he had started...

Frank Forcinella was born in February 1925 in Rensselaer, New York. His childhood was good. They had hard times and...

Joseph Orlando was assigned to Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, Massachusetts to be a Drill Instructor but it...

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

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Robert Butler Whitcomb was born in Scipio, Indiana. When he was about six his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...

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

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