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Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

Betty Peak had one year of college when the war started. She was 14 in October [Annotator's Note: 1937] and the war...

Ralph Morse was born in Manhattan in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in October 1917. His father...

Paul Franklin went to work for an oil company after he graduated high school. While at the water house, Franklin...

Gerry Jones was painting radio towers in California when he heard the Japanese attacked 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...

Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

Paul Gibfried was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in September 1924. When he joined the Navy, he was investigated by the...

Hugh Wingo and his unit trained at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] for a while before they went...

After basic training, Herbert Yudenfriend was sent to Camp Howze in Texas near Dallas [Annotator's Note: Cooke County,...

Claude Larry Taylor was born in November 1926 in Sorrento, Louisiana. His father worked for the lumber industry moving...

Meade Willis was born in Plaucheville, Louisiana. His mother died when he was four years old, and he did not get along...

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