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[Annotators Note: The interview begins mid conversation but gets on track shortly after the initial conversation.] Tom...

There were many gold stars in the windows around Lorraine Mesken's home, and she remembers helping to console mothers...

Lorraine Doroff was born in December 1918 on a family farm near Long Prairie, Minnesota in a log cabin. She liked...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

Alexander Marsh was born in November 1922, one of eight children, on a farm in Hardee County, Florida. As a young man,...

Charles Harrison was having breakfast in the mess hall on Peale Island when he heard a runner from the detachment shout...

Herbert Fontenot joined the Navy because it was the only branch that would accept him at 16 years of age. He loved his...

Odell Wallace Vaughn was born in December 1921 in Greenville, South Carolina and grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina...

Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...

Francis Dymnicki was born in Yonkers, New York and lived there for ten years during the Depression until his father...

Robert Oplinger was born in August 1925 and grew up in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He enjoyed his life. He remembers the...

About eight months after the Helena went down [Annotator's Note: the USS Helena (CL-50) was sunk during the Battle of...

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