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John L. Cowan did not know or care what a Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

Malcolm Johnson was a civilian contractor for Morrison-Knudsen [Annotator’s Note: American civil engineering and...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Warren Nolan had an older brother who was kind of the pioneer of the family. The family is Catholic, so the brother...

Merlin C. Smith was born in December 1925 in Baker, Louisiana. He had had two brothers and one sister. The family lived...

Edwin Henlebin was born in 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri, and lived there his entire life, except for when he was in the...

Cleston Stell was born in Alvarado, Texas in 1926. The family moved to Fort Worth when he was young. During the 1930s,...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Wallace G. Hurley was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1923. His mother and father divorced. His alcoholic father headed...

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

Carl Beck joined the Army at 17 in November 1942. He was born in 1925. He had been working with his father during the...

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