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John A. McCarthy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His family moved to Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. He was...

Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...

James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...

Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...

Edwin McAuliffe was in Covington [Annotators Note: Covington, Louisiana] visiting friends. The news came across the...

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

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...

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