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Bryon Carl Oliver was born in July 1922 in Buffalo, New York. As a child, he played sports including skiing, baseball...

[Annotator's Note: Newton Dana was born in 1924 in Trenton, New Jersey.] Newton Dana grew up with a large extended...

Myron L. Guisewhite was born in 1921 in Avis, Pennsylvania, one of the five children of a New York Central Railroad...

Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...

Clifford Smith was at home reading a comic book and listening to the radio on 7 December 1941 when the news of the...

Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Stanley James Thurston was born in Irvington, Alabama in March 1924. The family farmed and raised livestock during the...

Carl Koone was born in Cleveland, Arkansas in August 1922. He grew up during the Great Depression in a family that ran...

At 16, Charles Davis was one of 1,200 men, including his brother, a Marine, who boarded the USS Helena (CL-50) on New...

In April 1940, Jack Holder enlisted in the Navy and completed bootcamp in San Diego, California. Boot camp was...

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