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Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...

Lewis M. Lee, Sr.'s most memorable experience of the war was Pearl Harbor, and he remarks that we didn't have a...

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

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

Roy Uthes was born in June 1923. He had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up in a large home and was the youngest...

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

George Haines was top in points and could go home or stay near the war's end. He went to Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan for...

After the invasion they left Southern France [Annotator's Note: Perrett means Northern France, in June 1944] and...

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

Roy Cascio was born in December 1925 in Harvey, Louisiana. His father would find a job somewhere to keep working and...

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman...

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