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John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

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

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman joined the Navy on 18 August 1937.] Whitman really enjoyed the Navy and had a hard...

Cawthon B. Perdue Jr., known as C.B. to family and friends, was born in El Dorado, Arkansas in 1925. He graduated high...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

Wesley John Dochick was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Kaare Allan Johnson lived one lot away from a movie theater, The Victory Theater [Annotator's Note: in New York, New...

Giles Bacon thinks it is very important that The National World War II Museum exists. History is not being taught well...

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

Mallie Mellon was born in Hazard, Kentucky in October 1919. She had three sisters and one brother, and was the youngest...

Leonard Gaj enlisted in March 1943 because he thought it was his duty to protect the United States of America. It was...

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

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