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Norma Halberg was born in 1923 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. It was a good life. It was during the Depression...

David Oreck was born in 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. Around the age of 18, he decided to go to the University of...

There were many gold stars in the windows around Lorraine Mesken's home, and she remembers helping to console mothers...

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she earned nine battle stars supporting the USS Enterprise (CV-...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

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

Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...

William Hendren was born in February 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He spent his early childhood there before...

Joseph Rockforte was born in 1922 in what is now Plaquemine, Louisiana. After he was born his father moved the family...

Because of the discrimination in the Army caste system, Francis Resta said he came to really hate the Army. But when...

[Annotator's Note: Carolyn Bridgforth and her boyfriend decided to move up their wedding after the Japanese attacked...

Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...

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