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Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the suburb of Cicero. Right...

[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...

Dee Wayne White was born in September 1929 in Chester, Idaho. At age eight, his parents divorced, and he moved with his...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...

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

Shirley Guidry was born in Rayne, Louisiana in August 1925. When he was 15 years old, he moved to New Orleans [...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

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

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

Walter Henry Barton’s job with his regiment [Annotator’s Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...

Gowan Duffy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1920. He would bounce from one job to another because they...

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