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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...

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was born in Elgin, North Dakota in January 1926. His father had a farm, but they moved in 1941 to...

Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

George Scholes was flown to Pearl Harbor, which was just a muddy mess then. Much of the damage from the attack had been...

Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

Homer Myers was born in Union Grove, North Carolina in October 1924. His parents worked hard on a little farm. He got...

Rudy Huval and his four brothers went into the service. Ivan was the oldest brother [Annotator’s Note: Ivan was killed...

Wynn Bauer was born Clay Center, Kansas in September 1923. He grew up on a farm. He went to a two-room school with...

Harry Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in August 1926. His father was a glazier, his mother a housewife and he...

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