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William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. His family moved around frequently because his father worked...

After one year of study at Iowa State [Annotator's Note: Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa], Robert Erskine Hendrick...

Irvin C. Klimas is not sure the war itself changed him. Changing his life to go to the Navy for 38 months gave him a...

Carl Constein was born in August 1920 in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. He grew up with an older brother and an older sister...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

John Hever was born in 1924 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was the second of four children and the only boy....

Everything Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. learned as an officer in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of his life. [...

Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

Vernon Brantley was born in Sturgis, Kentucky in September 1924. He moved to South Bend, Indiana with his family...

Anna McCalla Noren wrote to her boyfriend, Carl Noren, to occupy time. She had met him when she first arrived at Fort...

Omer Van Huylenbrouck was born in Detroit, Michigan in June 1922. He grew up there. He had two brothers and two sisters...

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