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Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

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

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

Francis Hurd was born in Woodhall, New York to parents who were farmers. When he was 16 years old he was forced to quit...

Donald Witmer was on the USS Twiggs (DD-591) for its shakedown cruise to Bermuda. It was Christmas of 1943, and Witmer...

Marvin Hill was born in November 1925 in Louisa County, Virginia, the only male child of six children. His father was...

Henry Heim suffered all night long [Annotator's Note: Heim is referring to being injured during the Japanese attack on...

After the invasion they left Southern France and returned to Norfolk, Virginia where the men were given a 15 day leave...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

Walter Ram went through basic training for the Army. He was discharged after a year in the Army. When the Japanese...

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