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Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

Harry W. Lockhead was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1925. He grew up in Chatham where his step-father had a butcher...

Gravois was born in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana and grew up in Edgard, Louisiana until he was 17.Pearl Harbor was on 7...

The ship [Annotator's Note: the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13)] wasn't at Pearl Harbor for long before heading...

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

[Annotator's Note: Jacklyn Lucas stowed away aboard the USS Deuel (APA-160) on 10 January 1945 for the trip from Pearl...

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

Reuben Weiner was born in Los Angeles, California on Bastille Day [Annotator's Note: national day of France] in July...

Robert Heller was born in December 1921 in Lake Wood, Ohio and became a member of the United States Army's 91st Bomb...

Herbert Auerbach was born in June 1922 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended a local high school in what is...

Robert Oplinger remembers receiving the first Japanese sword of surrender on the home islands as being his most...

Henry A. Tacket began training at Treasure Island in San Francisco for his assignment to a new destroyer. That was...

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