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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...

Joseph J. Drake was born in October 1924 in Hawley, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and one sister. His father lost...

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

Frederick Grun was born in March 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children. His father was an...

James L. Wheeler was born in Los Angeles, California, in February 1926. His father was a dairy man, and his mother was...

John Ream had to learn what war was. He thought the hike to Camp John Hay [Annotator’s Note: Camp John Hay in Baguio,...

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

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

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

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

Returning to his prewar life, Holly Rees remembered when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...

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