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Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Joseph Blouin was born in March 1923 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up there. He had a brother who was coming home...

Calvin Elliott did not use the G.I. Bill. He had an occupation. He worked with women all of his life. When he retired,...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Don Daniels was born in Columbia, South Carolina in December 1925. He lived there until he was 14. He then moved to...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

George Sakato was born in Colton, California at a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific hub for the Railroad company. His...

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

James Russo, Jr. was born in February 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had a twin brother who he was close to...

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