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Chester L. Talley was born in Idaho in 1921. He grew up with one older brother and one older sister. His father was a...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Meade Willis was born in Plaucheville, Louisiana. His mother died when he was four years old, and he did not get along...

Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

Paul Gibfried was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in September 1924. When he joined the Navy, he was investigated by the...

[Annotator’s Note: The video begins with interviewee talking about how he wanted to write a book and working with a...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

Raymond Zager was born in December 1924 in Los Angeles, California. His father was out of work for a while but was able...

Robert Spint's most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard for him to say. He does not classify any of it. Some of...

Robert Dannehl was playing softball with friends on a Sunday morning, and then came home where his mother and siblings...

Henrietta Harkness was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in October 1918. Her father was a foreman at the Bethlehem Steel...

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