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

William Garbo was born in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi. He was in high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor....

Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

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...

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

[Annotator's Note: Roswell Weil served in the Army as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps and was called to active...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Smith left his Mediterranean duty and returned to the US from Oran, Algeria.] He landed in...

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

David Oreck was born in 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. Around the age of 18, he decided to go to the University of...

There were many gold stars in the windows around Lorraine Mesken's home, and she remembers helping to console mothers...

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