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Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

There were many gold stars in the windows around Lorraine Mesken's home, and she remembers helping to console mothers...

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

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Walter Ram went through basic training for the Army. He was discharged after a year in the Army. When the Japanese...

Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

Because of the discrimination in the Army caste system, Francis Resta said he came to really hate the Army. But when...

Oscar Higgenbotham was born in January 1924 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father, a mechanical engineer, found...

Jack Weiss was born in Elkhart, Indiana in June 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotators Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...

Herman Prager witnessed the end of the war while on Midway Island. Following Midway, he sailed to Pearl Harbor for rest...

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