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Robert L. Williams was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1922 and raised in Park Hills. His life was fairly boring until...

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

Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

Guy Stern had come to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1937 when he was 15 years old to escape Nazi Germany. He tried, but...

The Yorktown [Annotators Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] ended up getting the worst of it in the form of aerial and...

From there [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] they returned to Pearl Harbor. There, James Allen joined the Silversides [...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool was born in July 1920 in Queens County, New York. She went to Connecticut College [...

Henry Heim suffered all night long [Annotator's Note: Heim is referring to being injured during the Japanese attack on...

Chester Biernacki and the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] returned to the United States after the Pearl...

Alonzo Emerson was born in April 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The oldest of three children [Annotator's Note: one...

Masaji Inoshita was born in central California. At an early age he moved down to the Santa Barbara area. His father had...

Louis Smith recalled that he was inducted 26 February 1943, wounded on Iwo Jima 26 February 1945, and quit smoking...

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