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Lora E. Daniel was born August 1917 in Florence, Alabama. She was the youngest of five children. They farmed and she...

Russell Brien was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but he does not know exactly where he was. He...

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

Carl Light was born in a small town in southern Missouri and was inducted at Fort Leonard Wood [Annotator's Note: Fort...

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...

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...

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

Robert Jagers was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1922. His father passed away when he was 11 and he and his mother...

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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