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Bell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15th, 1918. Before the war, Bell had a business manufacturing...

Norman Neste was born in August 1923 in Hemet, California. His father was a housing contractor and they did well during...

Frank Forcinella was born in February 1925 in Rensselaer, New York. His childhood was good. They had hard times and...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

Abraham Rosenzweig picked up troops [Annotator’s Note: at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and headed for the invasion of...

Harold Buell returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: after flying with the "Cactus Airforce" off Henderson Field on...

Robert Oplinger remembers receiving the first Japanese sword of surrender on the home islands as being his most...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....

When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Mack Fitzgerald was a 4th generation Irishman who was born and raised in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His father was a farmer....

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