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Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

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

Walter Ram went through basic training for the Army. He was discharged after a year in the Army. When the Japanese...

Joseph Rockforte was born in 1922 in what is now Plaquemine, Louisiana. After he was born his father moved the family...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

Leroy Fadem was born in February 1921 in New York, New York. His father worked on Wall Street and his mother was a home...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Masaji Inoshita was born in central California. At an early age he moved down to the Santa Barbara area. His father had...

Coleen Perilloux Landry was born in February 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family owned a sugarcane plantation in...

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

Harry McCauley was born in October 1926 in Eunice, Louisiana. His family was poor and worked a small farm during the...

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