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Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

Alex Lopez was born in May 1926 in Los Angeles, California, the son of a barber. He grew up in a safe neighborhood...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Robert Mero was born in December 1924 in Canastota, New York, the youngest of the family's three sons. During the Great...

Rodney Charles Fraser was born in Alameda, California in January 1926. He was an active child who never knew he was...

Reuben Weiner was born in Los Angeles, California on Bastille Day [Annotator's Note: national day of France] in July...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

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

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

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

Gene Alair was assigned to a Transport Division Staff, CTD8, as a flag secretary and navigator aboard the USS Astoria (...

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