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Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...

Peter Newberg did not have much choice in abandoning ship [Annotator's Note: after the USS Yorktown (CV-5) was mortally...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

While waiting for an assignment, Theodore Robert Tanner and the other pilots of his group were called to meetings twice...

After he got home, Charles Stix started at the University of Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio]...

Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

When Ray Gene Gresham deployed to the Pacific, he left out of San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco,...

Buck Donaldson went to Portland to get ready to go to Manila, the Philippines. Before they got there, the Japanese...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

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