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Carrol Smith was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in March 1925. He grew up outside of town. It was a good place to grow...

Dominick Frank Poliseno was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: Sharpsville, Pennsylvania]. His father was...

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

Adam Istre said USS PC-487 was a pursuit craft and a submarine chaser, and its duties included protecting the shoreline...

Edward Donald Grant, Jr. was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1923. His father worked in the Presbyterian Church. He was...

Richard Tangradi was born in June 1924 in Philadelphia [Annotator’s Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He grew up there...

Robert Marich first entered the service in February 1941. In April 1941, at Camp Mackall, North Carolina [Annotator's...

William V. Cross was born in September 1922 in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up with one brother and a family that moved...

Arley Jett was born in 1922 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He grew up in Canoe, Kentucky and near Cincinnati, Ohio....

Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...

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

Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1921. His family moved to Los Angeles [Annotator's Note...

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