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James T. Connelly was born in June 1922 in Dorange, South Carolina on a farm. His father had to hunt for a job. His...

Kenneth E. Stevens was born in July 1924 in Todd County [Annotator's Note: in Long Prairie, Minnesota]. He attended...

Leon Bass voluntarily entered the military. He was in a movie theater when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

Frank Aleksandrowicz was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in December 1921. He took time off from college to work as a...

Joseph Daquana was born in Plaquemines, Louisiana in May 1928. He was the second youngest child in a family of seven...

Richard Lafleur was born in December 1926 in Bemidji, Minnesota. He was there until he was about 15, when his parents...

Grover Tyner oversaw a medical dispensary with the 310th Bomb Group [Annotator’s Note: 310th Bombardment Group, 12th...

Edward Stone normally stood four hour watches in the Radio Room [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Pyro (AE-1)] and then...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fought the war that was considered a "popular war" because it was necessary. He was a tall,...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with a conversation between the interviewer and Donald F. Goyette who goes off...

Jack A. Gillis' most memorable event of the war was an errant landing of a disabled aircraft that was nearly wrecked....

Oral History