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Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...

Robert Oplinger participated in several battles before Okinawa. It took three months for the United States for defeat...

Chafer Honea was born in November 1924 in Anderson, South Carolina. Growing up in Anderson was a lot of fun. His father...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

Daniel J. Lawler was born in 1925 in Glens Falls [Annotator's Note: Glens Falls, New York]. His father worked in the...

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...

About eight months after the Helena went down [Annotator's Note: the USS Helena (CL-50) was sunk during the Battle of...

Richard Witaker felt hatred for the Japanese before the assault of Okinawa. The feelings had begun with the surprise...

Oran Harris was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was returning from Sunday school when a man called out...

Shiyuza Hayashi is Japanese-American. He was born in America and did not know what Japan was like. His parents had...

Life at the Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] was very good, and Claude...

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