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Jack Vandervort was born in Bigheart, Oklahoma in December 1921. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

Frank Pryor combated loaded his troopship in Hilo, Hawaii. The fleet came together at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

Edward Stone was aboard the Pyro [Annotator's Note: USS Pyro (AE-1)] and found the ship had good cooks. That was...

Robert Tyler Oakes was born in March 1922 in New Albany, Indiana. He enjoyed his youth participated in plays in high...

Arnold Horn remembers that they had to help build barracks while they slept in tents. They trained with wooden guns....

Norman Gustaf Benson's family was Swedish. His father was born in Sweden and immigrated to the United States at an...

Delbert Franklin Hackman was born on a farm near Havana, Illinois in September 1919. He grew up on a farm and worked...

Bruce LaRose was born in Pennsylvania. He remembers the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global...

Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

Francis Borrell's first cruise was in the Atlantic Ocean. Borrell believes Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator...

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