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Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Robert Heller was born in December 1921 in Lake Wood, Ohio and became a member of the United States Army's 91st Bomb...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Harry Carlson was born in October 1924 in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He grew up there as a single child. His father...

Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...

David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

Lora E. Daniel was born August 1917 in Florence, Alabama. She was the youngest of five children. They farmed and she...

Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

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