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Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

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

Louis R. Lepore joined the Marine Corps in September 1942 and retired in May 1971 after 29 years of service. Lepore...

[Annotator’s Note: The video begins with interviewee talking about how he wanted to write a book and working with a...

Gordon Higgins was born in February 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, one of two sons who lived with their mother and...

James "Jim" Tubach was born in April 1926 in Fall City, Nebraska. He grew up there on a dairy farm with ten brothers...

Otto Kirkpatrick went to college after he got back from the war. Before the war, he was working for the conservation...

Bobby C. Wilson was born in West Monroe [Annotator's Note: West Monroe, Louisiana] in February 1925. His father was a...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Robert Zawada was 16 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He graduated from high school in 1942. He did not think...

Lester Caplan was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the son of a traveling salesman, he felt his childhood was "...

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