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Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

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

Robert Lowe was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was sent to Palmyra Atoll for two years of guard duty. They took a radar...

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

James Lee's parents said the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

Roy Uthes was born in June 1923. He had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up in a large home and was the youngest...

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

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

Roy Cascio was born in December 1925 in Harvey, Louisiana. His father would find a job somewhere to keep working and...

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