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Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...

Robert Oplinger participated in several battles before Okinawa. It took three months for the United States for defeat...

Elizabeth Barrett was at a loss, she said, as to her own husband's whereabouts or well being. When he got back to the...

Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

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

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

Herman Yates was born in Anna, Illinois in November 1921. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was a farmer....

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...

Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

About eight months after the Helena went down [Annotator's Note: the USS Helena (CL-50) was sunk during the Battle of...

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