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Dean Whittaker was born in March 1925 in Los Angeles, California. He was the second oldest of five children and his...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Josephine Reeves was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 1919. Growing up, Reeves attended the West Catholic...

Byron Othello Wilkins, who goes by B.O. Wilkins, was named after his father. He grew up in northeast Arkansas in Luxora...

Raymond Cauble was born in Blue Island, Illinois in February 1918. His father was a carpenter and contractor. He was...

Stella Sarnacki found out that her father died from causes of the war like the gas. She does not remember her...

Boot camp for Louis Smith took place at Parris Island, South Carolina and he found it tough. They shaved his head to...

Jack Yusen still frequently thinks about the men who died [Annotator's Note: when his ship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (...

Louis Conter saw the Second World War as an unconditional victory. Today's world is different. We should try to knock...

Leonard Brooks got up to go to school on Monday [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941] morning and that is when he and his...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

Salvatore Famularo was sent home on a C-54 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-54 Skymaster cargo aircraft]. There were no...

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