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Charles Womack was born in October 1922 and grew up in McComb, Mississippi. His parents were divorced and his father...

Abraham Rosenzweig suffered from a punctured eardrum when an explosion occurred near his boat near the island [...

Merrill was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga, CV-3] both times she was torpedoed.When they left...

Myron L. Guisewhite was born in 1921 in Avis, Pennsylvania, one of the five children of a New York Central Railroad...

William Graham Jameson was born on 29 April 1929 in Rochester, New York. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note...

Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...

Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...

John Laster was born in April 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky. He started school in Dalton, Georgia, but when he was in...

In April 1940, Jack Holder enlisted in the Navy and completed bootcamp in San Diego, California. Boot camp was...

Berle Wheeler was a veteran of the China-Burma-India Theater as a member of the 967th Engineers [Annotator's Note:...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow sees the most important lesson of World War 2 as it is related to the costliness of war. War can be...

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