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While recovering from an ear infection [Annotator's Note: in the hospital at Fort Bragg, North Carolina], Matthew...

Mallie Mellon was born in Hazard, Kentucky in October 1919. She had three sisters and one brother, and was the youngest...

Richard Notebaert was born in January 1920 in Rochester, New York. He was youngest of the four children of a bridge and...

William Edwin Howard was born in Grand Island, Florida on his grandfather's farm in July 1924. He fished there on Lake...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

After World War 2, Sam S. McKeel was assigned as quartermaster on LST-492 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank]. He...

Schuyler Lininger was born in Evanston, Illinois in October 1923. Lininger had one older brother and one younger sister...

Anthony Bianconi was in dry dock [Annotator's Note: as a musician and ammunition bearer on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41...

Chester Biernacki remembers his shipmates on the Helena [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)]. He has never suffered...

George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

Raleigh W. Johnson Jr. was born in October 1926 in Houston, Texas. He attended public school from primary to high...

Chris Daley was born in October 1923 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He grew up in a small town. His father owned a wholesale...

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