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Robert Mayes was born in Middlesboro, Kentucky in September 1923. He graduated from high school in 1941. He maintained...

Douglas Harper remembers everyone starting to talk about going home [Annotator's Note: after the war in the Pacific...

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

Edward Stone and the USS Bumper (SS-333) joined Submarine Squadron Five in the Philippines. The squad was classified as...

Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...

Paul Pizzolongo was born in February 1923 in Bronx, New York. His father picked numbers for the bookies and his mom did...

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

Martin Jacobson was back in Pearl Harbor, having just missed the Battle of Leyte Gulf [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

On 28 August [Annotator's Note: 28 August 1944], LST-1047 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank], the ship to which...

Cleveland Peterson's most memorable experience was being close to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. During the...

Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

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