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

Austin Hustead was born in 1923 in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, where he also spent his youth. The youngest of three...

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

Loevsky was born on Long Island, New York. He was 1 of 3 children.His father worked in a bronze factory. He was a young...

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...

Edward Stone and the USS Bumper (SS-333) joined Submarine Squadron Five in the Philippines. The squad was classified as...

Frederick Hollis saw the mood of the country after Kasserine Pass as being very negative. With many ships lost at Pearl...

After Pearl Harbor, Donald Witmer's next destination was Eniwetok Atoll. When they arrived, there were no Japanese...

Martin Jacobson underwent demolition training at Fort Pierce, Florida. He also learned sneak and peek, or surreptitious...

Alex Lopez was born in May 1926 in Los Angeles, California, the son of a barber. He grew up in a safe neighborhood...

Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command...

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