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Herbert Fontenot joined the Navy because it was the only branch that would accept him at 16 years of age. He loved his...

Lorraine Doroff was born in December 1918 on a family farm near Long Prairie, Minnesota in a log cabin. She liked...

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

Frederick Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He grew up in the fields. His father was a college...

Austin Hustead was born in 1923 in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, where he also spent his youth. The youngest of three...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Ed Rendelman was born in 1919 in Detroit, Michigan. His family moved to southern Illinois six weeks after he was born...

Douglas Harper remembers everyone starting to talk about going home [Annotator's Note: after the war in the Pacific...

John Howland had taken flight courses and was ready to join the Air Force but was restricted from becoming a pilot...

Herbert Weatherwax [Annotator's Note: Mr. Weatherwax's name is actually Clarence Herbert Weatherwax] was born in...

Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...

Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...

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