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Elmer Knudsen was born in February 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Camden, New Jersey. He had a...

Carl Beck joined the Army at 17 in November 1942. He was born in 1925. He had been working with his father during the...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

Stanley Harvey Bender chose the enlist in the Marine Corps. He liked the dress blue uniform, and one of his father’s...

David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

After about three years at sea on different ships, Lewis M. Lee, Sr. went back to Pearl Harbor where he got orders back...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

John S. Johnson reveals his thoughts on American POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] during the Korean War who...

Don Bowling was born in Penoke, near Princeton, West Virginia in July 1925. His father was superintendent of mines and...

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