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Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

Gus Gikas was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in April 1921. His dad was the town hat maker. Gikas moved to north Texas when...

Theodore Finkbeiner was the middle child between a brother and sister. He had just started Northeast Junior College [...

Towards the end of World War 2, John Carruth, serving in the Navy, was sent to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note:...

Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

Morton Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1926. He grew up there, with younger twin siblings, the...

Nicholas J. Zuras was born in Washington D.C. in July 1918. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

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

Aaron Baumgarten was born in 1922 in New York, New York, the fifth of the five sons in his family. His father worked in...

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool was born in July 1920 in Queens County, New York. She went to Connecticut College [...

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