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After Pearl Harbor, Herbert Gross was drafted. He had a brief basic training program. By August 1942, he had started...

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

Clifton Trahan was born in October 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was put in an orphanage at five years old. His...

James Albert Kitts was born in August 1925 in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the oldest child with two brothers and four...

Gary Tate was born in December 1924 and graduated from high school at 16 years old before the Japanese bombed Pearl...

Wilbur Rogers was born in August 1925 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, the youngest of six boys and three girls. His wasn't a...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

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

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

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

Burton Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois in April 1925. He grew up and was educated in Chicago. He received a master'...

George Ingram was born in December 1918 in Mellow Valley, in Clay County, Alabama, one of the seven children of a...

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