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[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling in the background throughout this segment.] Albert Castaing was born in New...

Rudy Huval was drafted into the Navy in 1955. He was in the Navy for two years. They would refuel ships at sea. They...

Carrol Joy was born in Morris County about 25 miles south of Manhattan, Kansas in 1920. He had one brother and one...

Jack C. Sanders was born in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When he had to leave his hometown because of his work or service...

[Annotator's Note: The interview video skips a bit in the beginning.] Richard Thelen was born in March 1927 and grew up...

After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

Willis Broussard was born in May 1927 in Lafayette, Louisiana. His family had a small farm which he helped work with...

Gabriel Spinelli was born in October 1923 in Italy. His father was in the marble business, his mother was a homemaker....

Grace Brown was at her sister's home when she heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

John Kreutzberg’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer. His job was to make sure the plane was...

During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic depression that lasted from 1929...

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