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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...

James Russo, Jr. was born in February 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had a twin brother who he was close to...

George Rudloff was born in San Francisco, California in 1923 and grew up there and in Palo Alto. His father started a...

Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Hawk's father had served in the Army Coast Artillery in the Philippines during World War I and woke Hawk up at 3 in the...

The Yorktown [Annotators Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] ended up getting the worst of it in the form of aerial and...

James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Raymond Cauble if he recalls where he was when he heard the news of the...

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

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

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