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Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

Robert Eshback was born in 1924 in Beckersville, Pennsylvania. He was one of two sons of a foundryman. Eshback went to...

Henry "Buck" Weaver was born in July 1920 in Blackview, South Carolina. His father worked for the telephone company and...

Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

Joseph Motil was deferred for six months and then went into the service on 22 January 1942. Motil was born on 24 July...

Donald E. Casey served as a second lieutenant and navigator during World War 2. Prior to the breakout of war, Casey...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

Leo V. Strausbaugh was a captain in charge of B Company of the 6th Ranger Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th...

Donald L. Beeghly was born in Sabetha, Kansas in May 1925. His father worked for Union Pacific but was laid off during...

The attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] did not...

Richard Yeagely was born in November 1925 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He had one brother who was in the Navy. His mother...

Raymond Hayes got word of the war ending before he left San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for Pearl [...

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