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William Balabanow was born in February 1926 in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. His stepfather was a miner. During the...

Claude Larry Taylor was born in November 1926 in Sorrento, Louisiana. His father worked for the lumber industry moving...

Jerry LaMura was born in Manhattan [Annotator's Note: Manhattan, New York City, New York] in June 1925. He grew up in...

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

Peggy Upham was born in January 1924 in Dallas, Texas. She remembers the Great Depression. Her family did alright. They...

June Tinker's mother started worrying about the impact of the war on her sons soon after Pearl Harbor. Tinker's two...

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

Edward Stone was aboard the Pyro [Annotator's Note: USS Pyro (AE-1)] and found the ship had good cooks. That was...

Arles J. Doss was born in October 1920 in Vivian, Louisiana. He remained in that town until he was 23 years old. He...

Jerome Paul DiFulco was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1921. He grew up there during the hard times of the...

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...

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