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Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Daniel Chester was born in February 1925 in Lakewood, Ohio, went through grammar and high school there, and lived in a...

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

Bud Loring was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. His father was an automotive, boat, and heavy construction mechanic....

His service as a Nisei [Annotator's Note: first generation Japanese-American] soldier was important to Walter Oka...

C. Charles Collie received a commission as an ensign in the Navy and assignment to a ship [Annotator's Note: the...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

Teddy Kirkpatrick reflects on the events in his life during World War 2, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor. He...

Beverly Coleman Oates Rougas was relieved when the war ended. Everyone felt safe and happy. Rougas thinks it is...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

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