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George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...

Floyd Stahl stood watch with everybody else. He had a lot of different assignments. In the Atlantic [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The audio level of this interview is very low.] John Ryan was born in June 1924, one of four...

John Witmeyer went to enlist in the United States military the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 8...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Walker enlisted in the Navy in January 1945.] He went into the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Earl Angel was born in August 1923 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He had ten siblings, four sisters and six brothers. His...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior went to Southern University Demonstration High School [Annotator's Note: Southern University...

Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. was sent to Camp Gordon [Annotator's Note: now Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia] to prepare for...

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