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Elmore Fredrick Ruck was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1922. His father worked as a public service...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was born in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York] in September 1926. He grew...

Harold Wellington was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in September 1924. He had one older brother and one...

John H. Cole was on his way to Japan for the invasion when the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped...

Clarence Carlson did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill but he feels he should have. He does not regret leaving the...

Johnny Allegrezza was born in Mississippi in January 1923. He went to school through the ninth grade. His parents...

Carl Payne heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

William Schrader was born in February 1926 in Hollywood, Florida. An only child, his father moved the family to...

William Cassady [Annotator’s Note: serving aboard the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] remembers the ship behind them...

Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp was born in March 1925 in...

Edward Thomas Toole's most memorable moment was when Japan surrendered. That meant the war was over. That was a...

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