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Alonzo Emerson was born in April 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The oldest of three children [Annotator's Note: one...

Beverly Coleman Oates Rougas was relieved when the war ended. Everyone felt safe and happy. Rougas thinks it is...

Robert L. Williams was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1922 and raised in Park Hills. His life was fairly boring until...

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

McClellan did not keep in touch with any of the men he served with after the war. He never attended any reunions. He...

Richmond Hamilton was born in October 1921 in Richmond, Virginia. His father was self-employed as a paper wholesaler...

Frank Dominic Lanzetta witnessed the damage done to many of the ships due to the Kamikazes around Okinawa [Annotator's...

Walter Bank used the G.I. Bill for graduate school at WPI [Annotator's Note: Worcester Polytechnic Institute in...

Donald Wilson took the train across country from San Francisco to Quincy, Massachusetts to report aboard the cruiser...

Harold “Hal” Leith was born in June 1919 in Butte, Montana. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Louis Smith was born in April 1925 in Newport, Kentucky. He grew up during the Great Depression, when jobs were scarce...

James Nerison was born in San Francisco. His mother and father moved down to the city of Alhambra near Los Angeles. His...

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