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One of George Kearney's friends, who lives not far from him, was a ban saw operator who cut the notches for the keel...

Thomas W. Gillette moved from Bath, Maine to Hawaii [Annotator's Note: in 1940 to live with his sister, Lydia Grant...

Blaine Kern served in the Army for about two years. When he returned home, he was in a camp in California. In 1947, he...

Because Mary Cummings [Annotator's Note: in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval...

Francis Higgins had a business on Canal Street. It was originally Canal Marine owned by Lewis Waggoner and his brother...

After graduation, Orrin Welty went home on a 14-day furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short...

Carolyn Bridgforth met her husband at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he...

Gretchen Wronka’s father, Loren Hintz, was killed in action while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War 2. Her...

Frederick Henry [Annotator's Note: a Military Police officer in the US Army, stationed in Tuskegee, Alabama] was born...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax was at home on the morning of the attack. He heard a loud explosion but did not know what...

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. did not want to be in the infantry. He got in at a fortunate time when bases were being built for...

Nelson Constant was born in December 1914 in Bayou Buff, Louisiana. He remembers a soldier that came back from World...

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