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Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

Victor K. Carman wanted to become an electronics engineer. While he was at the Great Lakes Naval Base [Annotator's Note...

Joseph LaNier was 15 years old and working in a nightclub when an incident happened in Columbus [Annotator’s Note:...

Baptiste went to the Customs House [Annotators Note: in New Orleans] on 5 February 1938 where he was selected with 6...

Joseph Daquana was born in Plaquemines, Louisiana in May 1928. He was the second youngest child in a family of seven...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was assigned to the crew of a crash boat and deployed to Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll,...

Jack Leaming arrived in Tokyo after the Japanese surrender and was put aboard a hospital ship. They were stripped naked...

After he was discharged, Thomas Tizzard looked for a job. He worked in New Orleans, Louisiana as a conductor on a...

Towards the end of World War 2, John Carruth, serving in the Navy, was sent to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note:...

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