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Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Austin Hustead was born in 1923 in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, where he also spent his youth. The youngest of three...

Douglas Harper remembers everyone starting to talk about going home [Annotator's Note: after the war in the Pacific...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

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

John Howland had taken flight courses and was ready to join the Air Force but was restricted from becoming a pilot...

The judges at the essay contest [Annotators Note: in New York] were distinguished writers and figureheads. Erickson...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

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