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Meyer J. "Mike" Levin was born in Venango, Nebraska. It was a small village near the border with Colorado. When he was...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

Walter Broll always had a haircut on Saturday. He would then go to confession since he was raised a Catholic. On one...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

Marvin Perrett was born in September 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was on his way home from church with his...

Beverly Coleman Oates Rougas was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1924. Life in New Orleans was wet and rainy...

Willard Haul "Jack" Coop was born in April 1924 in Sulphur, Kentucky. He grew up with two younger sisters. His family...

Sullivan Tindal was born in September 1925 in Hampton [Annotator's Note: Hampton, South Carolina]. He grew up on a...

Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

Lowell Rodrigue and his crew [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] picked up some Marine troops and brought...

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