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Walter Halloran had never thought about joining the military until the attack on Pearl Harbor. He knew no one who had...

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman joined the Navy on 18 August 1937.] Whitman really enjoyed the Navy and had a hard...

Meade Willis was born in Plaucheville, Louisiana. His mother died when he was four years old, and he did not get along...

Romay Catherine Johnson Davis attended college in New York. She and all of her five brothers served in the military....

George Hamilton was born in April 1922 in West Monroe, Louisiana. Hamilton lived in five states before he was six years...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

Robert Spint's most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard for him to say. He does not classify any of it. Some of...

James Britt was born in Asheville, North Carolina in March 1914. His mother worked in a bank. His father served in...

George Mitchell was born in Albany, Georgia in 1924. His father owned a barbershop with his brothers and two other men...

Lewis Thomas Easterling was born in January 1924 in Ellerbe, North Carolina and grew up in Rockingham [Annotator's...

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