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Thomas W. Gillette was born in Bath, Maine in 1931. When he was a small child, his mother left him and his father. As a...

George Kearney really enjoyed working for Higgins Industries. Durbins [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling] was in...

Thomas W. Gillette moved from Bath, Maine to Hawaii [Annotator's Note: in 1940 to live with his sister, Lydia Grant...

One of George Kearney's friends, who lives not far from him, was a ban saw operator who cut the notches for the keel...

Beverly Coleman Oates Rougas was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1924. Life in New Orleans was wet and rainy...

Francis John "Jack" Higgins was born in October 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He left there at two years of age and moved to...

Amelia Taylor was born in December 1923 in Santa Monica, California. She grew up there during the Great Depression....

Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Carolyn Bridgforth met her husband at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax was at home on the morning of the attack. He heard a loud explosion but did not know what...

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. did not want to be in the infantry. He got in at a fortunate time when bases were being built for...

Rudy Huval was born in Covington, Louisiana in February 1934. There were nine children in the family. His father was a...

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