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Jack Barnes was born in Cisco, Texas in 1922. Shortly after his birth, his family moved from Cisco because his father...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Albert Reale was born in March 1925 in New Britain, Connecticut. He had a good childhood among his three brothers in a...

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

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

Elmer Knudsen was born in February 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Camden, New Jersey. He had a...

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

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

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

Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

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