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Barbara Stables was born in November 1926 in Mobile, Alabama. They were not affected too much by the Depression [...

Robert Fulton and the crew of the USS Houston (CA-30) spent the first day after the Pearl Harbor attack preparing for...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

Towards the end of World War 2, John Carruth, serving in the Navy, was sent to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note:...

Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

Stanley Harvey Bender chose the enlist in the Marine Corps. He liked the dress blue uniform, and one of his father’s...

Antoinette Underwood signed up for the Army a day or two after Pearl Harbor. She had to go to West Point for an...

Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

David E. Verlander, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1923, the youngest of four children. His father was a...

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

Standifer was born on April 24th, 1925 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was walking down the street in Clinton, Mississippi...

Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...

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