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Theodore Finkbeiner was the middle child between a brother and sister. He had just started Northeast Junior College [...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

Harry George Paege, Junior had his 21st birthday in the service. He was a bugler. He got a letter that said his mother...

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

Norris Elwyn Gwin was born in June 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an only child. His father was a veteran of World War...

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

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...

During the last few days of the war there was very little action. Most of the Germans were figuring out a way to...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

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

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

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