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Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

Harold Gournay was born in Eunice, Louisiana in 1919. He grew up and attended school in Eunice. He graduated from high...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

Harry W. Lockhead was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1925. He grew up in Chatham where his step-father had a butcher...

Donelson Houseman was born in Dallas, Texas in 1923 and grew up there. After graduating high school, he began classes...

Katherine Croft was born in 1939 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Her father worked there briefly as an architect, and then...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Retracing his steps, Ogden Saik recalls that he was in high school and hanging around with the guys in the neighborhood...

James Lee's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the attack itself [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Reuben Weiner was born in Los Angeles, California on Bastille Day [Annotator's Note: national day of France] in July...

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