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Thomas Paris was born in Nashville, Tennessee in May 1926. He had one sister. His father was a salesman for Remington....

George Morgan had the unique experience of entering Tokyo Bay prior to the Japanese surrender. His ship was anchored...

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

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

[Annotator's Note: Helen Kushnir was in grade school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

Richard Audler was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Notes: New Orleans, Louisiana] in December 1925. He had one younger...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes was named after his uncle on his father's side. As a kid, he wanted a simple name like...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

Carl Caffarel was at Columbia University in New York, taking final exams [Annotator's Note: which were abandoned], when...

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

Joseph Orlando was assigned to Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, Massachusetts to be a Drill Instructor but it...

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