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Josephine Reeves was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 1919. Growing up, Reeves attended the West Catholic...

Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...

They went to the South Pacific to the Solomons [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. The ship was pretty crowded.At Mare...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

William Disanza was in the Boy Scouts as a kid but it did not prepare him for Burma. Disanza had originally joined the...

Harold Ward found out that the man on the other side of the headphones died about six years ago. Ward wore the...

Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command...

Paul Hilliard believes the SBD Dauntless is much underrated and unfortunately much unrecognized. WWII books sometimes...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy as an Electricians Mate aboard the submarine USS Sea Dragon.]...

Baum served with the 4th Armored Division during WWII. He was born in New York and grew up in the Bronx. His father was...

William Barnes served aboard USS PC-590 which was a patrol craft. During the early part of 1942 the navy was desperate...

Baptiste feels that it is important for there to be a National World War II Museum. If they hadn't done what they did...

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