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William Blackwood was born in March 1921 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was an only child, and lived in a small community near...

William Braddock signed up for Marine paratrooper training after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He returned to San Diego...

Robert Lowe was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was sent to Palmyra Atoll for two years of guard duty. They took a radar...

Chester Biernacki and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] were on the way to Guadalcanal when they met up...

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

William Ebersole was born in September 1924 in Arcadia, Florida. He graduated from high school there in June 1942 then...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

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

Walter Bowsher had difficulties obtaining stamps. [Annotator's Note: Bowsher was the Marine postmaster in the 1st...

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

Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

Olin Tisdale went back to the Pacific to help train a new fighter squadron on F8Fs [Annotator's Note: Grumann F8F...

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