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Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

Paul Bosworth was born in November 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. [Annotator's Note: Sound cuts in and out.] He was in high...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

Douglas Harper, one of three sons, grew up in Tri-City Beach, east of Baytown, Texas and south of Cedar Bayou, Texas....

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

Bell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15th, 1918. Before the war, Bell had a business manufacturing...

Albert Reale was born in March 1925 in New Britain, Connecticut. He had a good childhood among his three brothers in a...

Floyd Dumas' father worked for the New York Central Railroad in Malone, New York as a boilermaker. Dumas had three...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Herb McClure was born in March 1924 in Neodesha, Kansas, the only male and oldest of five siblings. His father had an...

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