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Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Merlin C. Smith was born in December 1925 in Baker, Louisiana. He had had two brothers and one sister. The family lived...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Loevsky was born on Long Island, New York. He was 1 of 3 children.His father worked in a bronze factory. He was a young...

Wallace G. Hurley was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1923. His mother and father divorced. His alcoholic father headed...

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

Barbara Stables was born in November 1926 in Mobile, Alabama. They were not affected too much by the Depression [...

Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch OHare] really invented the Thatch Weave and Thatch's name was...

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

Thomas Wicker received orders to serve on an oilier, which he was not thrilled about. He graduated from Tulane...

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