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Alex Lopez was born in May 1926 in Los Angeles, California, the son of a barber. He grew up in a safe neighborhood...

Robert Mero was born in December 1924 in Canastota, New York, the youngest of the family's three sons. During the Great...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

Frank Hartzell was born in January 1925 in Buffalo, New York. After six months, his family moved to the Philadelphia...

Baptiste feels that it is important for there to be a National World War II Museum. If they hadn't done what they did...

Chester Biernacki and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] were on the way to Guadalcanal when they met up...

James Lee's parents said the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

Once while Frank Mancuso was out with his friends, they began talking about how bad things were getting in Germany,...

David Flynn has written an account of the events of 7 December 1941. He recorded receiving the announcement of the...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

Coleen Perilloux Landry was born in February 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family owned a sugarcane plantation in...

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