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Norman Riggsby had a postwar career that was not related to his wartime experiences. His most memorable thing about...

Alonzo Emerson was born in April 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The oldest of three children [Annotator's Note: one...

Louis Smith recalled that he was inducted 26 February 1943, wounded on Iwo Jima 26 February 1945, and quit smoking...

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

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

Hawk's father had served in the Army Coast Artillery in the Philippines during World War I and woke Hawk up at 3 in the...

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

Leroy Fadem was born in February 1921 in New York, New York. His father worked on Wall Street and his mother was a home...

Russell Brien was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but he does not know exactly where he was. He...

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

Frank Patti was born in December 1924 in Hammond, Louisiana and grew up on a produce farm where his parents shared the...

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