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James Pringle was born in Sumter, South Carolina in November 1925. Life growing up was rough. He worked in grocery...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

Everett Hyland was on the radio gang on the Memphis [Annotator's Note: USS Memphis (CL-13)]. They picked up 200...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

Frank Jasicko was born in March 1924 in Tracy, Montana and grew up in nearby Great Falls. He enjoyed playing sports....

Gerald Claassen was born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in December 1920. His father died at the age of 26 when Claassen was...

Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...

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

Sterling Cale was assigned to recover the dead from the Arizona [Annotator's Note: USS Arizona (BB-39)] after the...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

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