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Hillman James Prestridge was born in September 1924 in Cragford, Alabama, a small town of about 400 people. He had one...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

On 7 December 1941, Alfred Raymond was sleeping and someone came and woke him up to tell him that the Japanese had...

John Foy was born in October 1925 in Rochester, New York, one of the ten children of a plumbing contractor. He came up...

Charles A. Waller was born in August 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in the suburb of West Roxbury. He was...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout this clip as he had a stroke and has trouble remembering...

Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of...

Peggy Hitchcock was born in June 1933. Her parents were happy. She enjoyed school. They would walk across the beach....

Rudy Cravens was born in Tennessee in February 1918. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global...

Robert L. Williams was amazed that he was able to find his friend Joe's grave. Williams had Joe's Army serial number...

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

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