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Once while Frank Mancuso was out with his friends, they began talking about how bad things were getting in Germany,...

Lloyd Guillory flew aboard an LB-30 [Annotator's Note: the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator cargo aircraft was a variant of...

Perry Smith saw the Second World War as a turning point for the United States. No longer could the nation back out of...

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

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Herman Yates was born in Anna, Illinois in November 1921. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was a farmer....

Thomas Crosby remembered soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they attacked the Philippines. Using...

Ernest Chauvin was born in Houma, Louisiana in October 1925. He lived there until he was drafted in 1943 or 1944. His...

The attack on Pearl Harbor happened while Calvin Summers was at work, and when he came home, his family was discussing...

Louis Conter left the USS Arizona (BB-39) via a liberty boat after her fatal bombing. He boarded the boat near number...

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

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

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