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Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

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

Carl Caffarel was at Columbia University in New York, taking final exams [Annotator's Note: which were abandoned], when...

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

Kaliste Joseph Saloom, Jr. was born in Lafayette, Louisiana on in May 1919. Prior to the war, Saloom attended college...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Clifton Trahan was born in October 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was put in an orphanage at five years old. His...

Frank Patti was born in December 1924 in Hammond, Louisiana and grew up on a produce farm where his parents shared the...

The judges at the essay contest [Annotators Note: in New York] were distinguished writers and figureheads. Erickson...

Daniel Crowley and a couple of his friends were sent on the USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) to the Philippines. He recalled...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

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

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