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Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

Victor Yost's first action against the Japanese was at the Battle of the Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: 4 to 8 May 1942...

Garland Miller Gallaspy [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 161st Parachute Engineer Battalion, 503rd Parachute...

Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...

James Morehead was born in August 1916 in Peoli, Oklahoma, the youngest of four children in a family that worked a farm...

Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotators Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...

Robert Leroy Shirkey was born in Vliets, Kansas in April 1924. He grew up on a farm with eight brothers and sisters....

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] returned to Bremerton, Washington via Pearl Harbor [...

Real estate helped Paul Kerchum get over his war experience because it was very cutthroat. Sometimes he would have...

Asked if the war changed him in any way, Cleatus Lebow said it helped him have a little more faith, and mentioned that...

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