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John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...

Harold Wellington was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in September 1924. He had one older brother and one...

Virginia Wilterdink's most memorable experience of the war was hearing the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl...

R.M. Wilkes was born in July 1923 in Georgia. His father was a pharmacist in the small town of Cobbville [Annotator's...

Thomas Edward Pugh sailed into Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and saw the damage to the ships in...

Astley Blackwell’s ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] was sunk on 25 October [Annotator's Note: 25...

Charles R. Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1924. His father was a window washer. His mother was a housewife...

Henry L Baul was born in December 1922 in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His family moved to Florida when Baul was young. His...

William Cassady [Annotator’s Note: serving aboard the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] remembers the ship behind them...

One day in late 1945 Allen Tillery was called in to the office of the colonel and informed that his application for the...

Henry Heim was glad to accomplish what he did. He is proud that he got to fight for his country. He was worried he...

Ernest Cowell thinks being on shore in the Army is different from being at sea in the Navy. In the Navy, he did not...

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