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Calvin Barrick grew up on a farm. He had four brothers and one sister but two of his brothers have died. Barrick was...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

Henry Joffray was a member of the Merchant Marine during World War 2. There were 4,000 ships and 260,000 sailors in...

Calvin Barrick thinks that Dick O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard H. O'Kane was the commanding...

After dropping his bomb, Sumner Whitten turned to get away from the Haruna's [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Navy...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in 5th Marine Division] had to be responsible for his 30 camera guys [...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] was divided into a group sent to a camp that overlooked a...

For Allen Tillery, returning to civilian life was not much of an adjustment because it happened so fast. He thought for...

Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi and assigned to Headquarters, 271st Infantry Regiment [...

William S. “Bill” Beamish’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his fiancée came to the railroad station...

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