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Irvin C. Klimas is not sure the war itself changed him. Changing his life to go to the Navy for 38 months gave him a...

Charlotte Combs was born in April 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She had two little...

Edward Dunne's most memorable experience of the war is seeing dead people. It is bad, especially when it is a lot of...

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...

Blaine Kern went to Czechoslovakia to tour the glass industry. The secret police were following him. He has a factory...

Everything Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. learned as an officer in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of his life. [...

William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. His family moved around frequently because his father worked...

When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...

Frank Kern served as a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines [Annotator's Note: 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd...

On the morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941, Maurice Hackler and a friend were driving to a wildlife area to go rabbit...

Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...

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