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Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

Vernon Brantley was born in Sturgis, Kentucky in September 1924. He moved to South Bend, Indiana with his family...

Gerald Kynett returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], where he was held up for some time....

Omer Van Huylenbrouck was born in Detroit, Michigan in June 1922. He grew up there. He had two brothers and two sisters...

Lorenzo Dow Crews fought in World War 2 because "it was the thing to do." He was ready to go after the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout this clip as he had a stroke and has trouble remembering...

Monroe S. Wolyn was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...

Rear Admiral Bennett Sher Sparks, United States Coast Guard, Retired, was born in October 1925 in Pittsburg,...

Herbert W. Ridyard benefited from his service and combat all during his later life. It helped him physically, mentally...

Wiley stayed on the Portland [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS Portland, CA-33] for 2 days and slept on the...

William Scott Stroud was born in June 1921 in Huntington, Arkansas but soon moved to Shady Point, Oklahoma where he...

Dee Wayne White was born in September 1929 in Chester, Idaho. At age eight, his parents divorced, and he moved with his...

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