Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Eugene Corson was born in March 1922 in Stanford, Connecticut. In 1936, his father got a job working on submarines in...
Walter Atwood was born Lebanon, Kansas in February 1922. He grew up on a farm. He had to milk cows before and after...
Warren Huggins was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma in August 1926. He grew up on a farm. It was hard during the...
Paul Sartori Jr.’s father was an immigrant from northern Italy. They were carriage makers and blacksmiths. His father...
Paris Tognoli was born in December 1924 in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. They later...
He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...
Salvatore Famularo was born in Amsterdam, New York in September 1925. He had a sister and a brother. He was the oldest...
Rudolph C. Miller was born in 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother took him to Chicago [Annotator's Note:...
Angus Francis Mestayer is 95 years old. He was born in 1922 in Loreauville [Annotator's Note: Loreauville, Louisiana]....
Melvin S. Tanenbaum was born in 1923 in Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: Queens is one of the five boroughs in New...
James Bowie was born in September 1925 in Mississippi. Bowie had two sisters and one brother. He was the youngest. His...
Clint Quirk was born in December 1923 in Butte, Montana and grew up in Anaconda, Montana. He had one sister. His father...
Charles Chartier was born in Applegate, Michigan in February 1927. He had one brother and one sister. He was the...
Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...
William Lutz was born in March 1920 and raised in Reading [Annotator’s Note: Reading, Pennsylvania]. He had a good life...
Richard R. Ruess was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1918. His parents had two daughters that were killed in...
Walter Groth was born in Louisiana in July 1924. He was born and raised on a beef cattle farm in Elton, Louisiana. His...
Walter John Guyote was born in St. Mary Parish [Annotator’s Note: St. Mary Parish, Louisiana] in July 1925. He had...
Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was born in Ballinger, Texas in May 1925. In the 1920s, his parents owned a ranch. Because...
Earl Williams was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in April 1923. He remembers being...
Paul Lawrence was born Rochelle, Illinois but lived in Ionia, Michigan. He moved to Grand Rapids [Annotator's Note:...
Edward Riedl was born in November 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] and grew up there. He...
James Patterson was born in 1921 in Portland, Tennessee. He has one brother and one sister. He is the oldest child. His...
Ralph Burch was born in August 1923 in Port Arthur [Annotator’s Note: Port Arthur, Texas]. He lived close to the canals...
Ben Ray Bost is the only veteran left alive of the men on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316]. He was born in...
William Stewart is 88 years old. He was born in April 1929 in Glendale, California. He has one brother. His father...
Raymond Vincent Hayes was born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1926. He had three brothers but his sister died in...
John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....
Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...
Andrew Leblanc, Junior was born in July 1926 in McCall [Annotator's Note: McCall, Louisiana]. He had seven sisters and...
Clayton Hall was born in Harvey County on a farm near Newton [Annotator's Note: Newton, Kansas]. His father was in...
John Ream was born in November 1934 in the Philippine islands. His father was raised on a ranch in Idaho. He went to...
When John Wicklund went for classification at Keesler Field [Annotator's Note: now Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi,...
Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...
Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...
Michael Maziarczyk was born in July 1922. He was raised on a farm in Cameron, Pennsylvania. His mother had 14 children...

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