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Photograph. Group of uniformed American servicemen gathered indoors around Christmas cake being cut with samurai sword...

Photograph. Helicopter flying with three escort airplanes above it. Personal caption on reverse: "3 Escorts / 1...

Kenneth Beard was born on a farm in Sullivan, Ohio in March 1922. He took a farm wagon to school and grew up in a home...

Chester Biernacki remembers his shipmates on the Helena [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)]. He has never suffered...

Robert Marich first entered the service in February 1941. In April 1941, at Camp Mackall, North Carolina [Annotator's...

Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...

Raymond Hayes got word of the war ending before he left San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for Pearl [...

Charles Taylor was born in December 1923 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Taylor recalls growing up during the Great...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant graduated high school in 1935 in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: Baton Rouge, Louisiana]....

At 16, Charles Davis was one of 1,200 men, including his brother, a Marine, who boarded the USS Helena (CL-50) on New...

George C. Ward was born in Erlanger, Kentucky in January 1926. He was raised in Florence, Kentucky. He had one brother...

Jane Biestek worked at Yellowstone National Park when she in Montana. Her father would log there during the summer when...

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