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Robert Butler Whitcomb was born in Scipio, Indiana. When he was about six his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he...

Norman Hatch was asleep at his place in New York on the morning of 7 December 1941. He had preset his radio to turn on...

James Albert Kitts was born in August 1925 in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the oldest child with two brothers and four...

Obie Wickersham was born in March 1925 in Oklahoma. One of the legacies of his father's World War 1 service was...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

Harry Carlson was born in October 1924 in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He grew up there as a single child. His father...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Weldon Fruge was born in January 1925 in Eunice, Louisiana. His parents were sharecroppers, moving from farm to farm...

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she earned nine battle stars supporting the USS Enterprise (CV-...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty does not feel that the war changed her even though some of the times were a bit scary....

Mary R. Stricklan was born in May 1919 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: Gordon County, Georgia]. Growing up there was...

Charles Harrison was having breakfast in the mess hall on Peale Island when he heard a runner from the detachment shout...

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