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

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...

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...

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

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

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool was born in July 1920 in Queens County, New York. She went to Connecticut College [...

Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...

Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...

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

Chester Biernacki and the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] returned to the United States after the Pearl...

Norman Riggsby had a postwar career that was not related to his wartime experiences. His most memorable thing about...

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