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Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Don Bowling was born in Penoke, near Princeton, West Virginia in July 1925. His father was superintendent of mines and...

Donald Witmer didn't know what his fate would be. He thought he was drifting toward the beach, one that was held by the...

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

Robert Mero was born in December 1924 in Canastota, New York, the youngest of the family's three sons. During the Great...

Alex Lopez was born in May 1926 in Los Angeles, California, the son of a barber. He grew up in a safe neighborhood...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

John McConn was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. Raised during the Great Depression, McConn's father was an accountant...

[Annotator's Note: Frank Purvis was in New York when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

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