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Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

Nick Cristiano was born in July 1925. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. There were great schools. His father owned a...

Rufus Harris signed up for Navy ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] because his dad anticipated the...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

The first time Willie Roy Hebert had ever been on a ship was when he was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

Alvin Barnes was born December in 1925 in Minden, Nebraska. His family moved from the small Midwestern town and bought...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

Benjamin Clark Amsden was born in his mother's hometown of Springfield, Ohio in October 1922. He was there for three...

Garland Miller Gallaspy was born in Ottawa, Oklahoma in November 1922. His family moved all over the Southeast while he...

John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...

Aloysius "Al" Arend was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1925. He grew up and spent much of his life in nearby...

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