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Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Maynard David grew up on a farm west of Topeka, Kansas. He went to high school in Silver Lake, Kansas and graduated in...

The day after the attack [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor], Fred Aldridge...

Henry A. Tacket was aboard the USS Heermann (DD-532) when the invasion of the Philippines started. The initial landings...

Roy Cascio was born in December 1925 in Harvey, Louisiana. His father would find a job somewhere to keep working and...

Harry Carlson was born in October 1924 in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He grew up there as a single child. His father...

Daniel Crowley and a couple of his friends were sent on the USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) to the Philippines. He recalled...

Francis Hurd was born in Woodhall, New York to parents who were farmers. When he was 16 years old he was forced to quit...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty does not feel that the war changed her even though some of the times were a bit scary....

Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

Dorothy Decker Ehlers was born in December 1931 in Long Beach, California and grew up there during the depression years...

John Earles was born in April 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a section foreman on the GM...

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