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Asked if she ever experienced any kind of harassment, Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool answered in the negative. She said...

James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

George Mouton's oldest brother was drafted. The second oldest brother was in submarines. The third brother was in the...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: Shown had become a crewman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in 1939] headed...

Hugh Wingo attended boot camp for eight weeks. They got their first liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

One night, Leon Griffith was on patrol. The sergeant said they should all lay down and go to sleep. The moon came up...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Cole (DD-155). The Cole left Norfolk for North Africa to land Rangers ashore in...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

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