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Leonard Brooks got up to go to school on Monday [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941] morning and that is when he and his...

Richard Lockhart was born in Lima, Ohio in January 1924 and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an only child. He...

Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) were assigned to the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The...

Fred A. Aldridge was born in Orlando, North Carolina. After graduating high school in September 1935 he enlisted in the...

Joseph Romano was born in May 1923 in Marrero [Annotator's Note: Marrero, Louisiana]. Growing up, there were poor...

Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

Milton Moxon was born in Sparta, Michigan in March 1925 and grew up in Grand Rapids. He was the fifth of seven children...

Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

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

Robert Wolf returned to the United States from the Philippines and went back to school. He graduated in 1949. He...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

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