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Pastor Dale Peterson was born in Warren, Minnesota in February 1926. He grew up in the Great Depression. His life was...

Jack H. Bleuler was discharged from the Army Air Corps in October 1945 as a staff sergeant at Barksdale Airfield [...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Lester Hecht returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Coast Guard boat. He was sent...

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

Myron J. Carraway was waiting for breakfast when the Pearl Harbor attack began [Annotator's Note: Carraway was aboard...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Barrick served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Tang (SS-306) during that vessel's...

The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

James did not realize that he was shot right away. He knew he was hit but the pain did not register. He went down below...

Edgar Harrell stayed in a hospital in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] for some time [Annotator's Note:...

Russell Gackenbach was summoned one day after dinner to answer the phone. He knew that something had to be wrong for...

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