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Thomas Houdek was born in Detroit, Michigan in March 1926, the youngest of six children. His father was a tool and die...

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

Elizabeth Gibbens was born in January 1920 in Corning, New York. Her father, a schoolteacher at the time, moved the...

Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Gus Gikas was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in April 1921. His dad was the town hat maker. Gikas moved to north Texas when...

Norris Elwyn Gwin was born in June 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an only child. His father was a veteran of World War...

Robert Mayes was born in Middlesboro, Kentucky in September 1923. He graduated from high school in 1941. He maintained...

Rodney Charles Fraser was born in Alameda, California in January 1926. He was an active child who never knew he was...

Oran Harris said that while he was on Palawan, he learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt had died, and the news made him...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Douglas Harper remembers everyone starting to talk about going home [Annotator's Note: after the war in the Pacific...

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