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Holly Frederick Reynolds was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. She was born in Virginia because her mother was there at the...

Nicholas J. Zuras was born in Washington D.C. in July 1918. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

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

Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...

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

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

Helmi McHardy was born on a dairy farm in Austin, Michigan in February 1927. She is one of nine children. On the farm,...

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

John McCarthy reached Pearl Harbor on his ship [Annotator’s Note: the repair ship USS Laertes (AR-20)]. They waited...

Robert Butler Whitcomb was born in Scipio, Indiana. When he was about six his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he...

Daniel Farley tried to enlist in the Marine Corps but they turned him down. He then went to the Army and they took him...

William Braddock signed up for Marine paratrooper training after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He returned to San Diego...

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