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When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

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

Frederick Hollis saw the mood of the country after Kasserine Pass as being very negative. With many ships lost at Pearl...

After Pearl Harbor, Donald Witmer's next destination was Eniwetok Atoll. When they arrived, there were no Japanese...

Lily Sawada and her family arrived in Poston, Arizona [Annotator’s Note: this was part of the relocation of Japanese-...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Seadragon. Killam had reported aboard...

Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...

Guy Leefe, Jr. was born and raised in New Orleans. After graduating from Fortier High School in 1938 he began taking...

In 1944, Roy Stewart was shipped out with the 24th Marine Regiment, although he was not attached to that regiment. They...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

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