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Lyle Mitchell was born in September 1918 in New York. He had a sister and a brother. His sister is two years younger...

George Colburn was born in Medford, Massachusetts in March 1926. His sister died as an infant and he grew up alone. His...

Helen Gagel [Annotator’s Note: born Helen Cosgrove] was born in 1915 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. She had four brothers...

Perry Smith was born at West Point, New York in 1934 while his father was serving as an instructor at the US Military...

Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...

William Patrick Bonelli retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1960. On the night of 6 December 1941, Bonelli was in...

Lloyd Reese was asleep, and his father woke him to tell him about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He knew that we were in...

Rudy Huval was drafted into the Navy in 1955. He was in the Navy for two years. They would refuel ships at sea. They...

David T. Morgenthaler was born in August 1919 in Chester, South Carolina. His parents divorced when he was young, and...

Charles Taylor was born in December 1923 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Taylor recalls growing up during the Great...

Angelo Ciotta wanted to be a Marine because he knew their history and he had seen the movie "Wake Island" twice. He saw...

Thomas Ballew served with the 231st Searchlight Battalion which was attached to the 9th Air Force. Ballew was born in...

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