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John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

Kenneth Beard was born on a farm in Sullivan, Ohio in March 1922. He took a farm wagon to school and grew up in a home...

Adam Istre said USS PC-487 was a pursuit craft and a submarine chaser, and its duties included protecting the shoreline...

Chester Biernacki remembers his shipmates on the Helena [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)]. He has never suffered...

Alvin Callender was born in 1918 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Before he joined the military, he was a student at...

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

At 16, Charles Davis was one of 1,200 men, including his brother, a Marine, who boarded the USS Helena (CL-50) on New...

Gregory Lawrence Nunnink was born in Kansas City [Annotator’s Note: Kansas City, Missouri] in 1927. He grew up with one...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant graduated high school in 1935 in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: Baton Rouge, Louisiana]....

John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

Vernon Leo Tyler was born in August 1923 in Los Angeles, California. There was no work [Annotator's Note: during The...

Russell Engel was born in Vesta, Minnesota, the son of a farmer who left the farm to work in oil refineries in Caspar,...

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