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

Carroll Harris was counting inventory in the grocery store he worked at when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor...

Connick's boat [Annotator's Note: an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel)] held roughly thirty-six men. Each boat...

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

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...

Harvey Segal was born in May 1925 in Roxbury, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston]....

Richard "Dick" Willhour was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December 1924. He had a younger brother who served in the Air...

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

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

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

Wilbur Thomas was born in March 1923 and grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania with two older brothers. During the Great...

Barbara Stables remembers that the bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

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