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Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with the interviewer attempting to level out the audio.] Alexander Jefferson was...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

William C. Ellzey was born in September 1922 in Agricola, Mississippi. The oldest of nine children, he grew up on a 40-...

15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [...

F.M. Richard Simons was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania in December 1925. He lived there his whole life. He attended...

Charles Poston was born in October 1921 in Austin, Arkansas but was raised in Many, Louisiana with two younger brothers...

In the spring of 1946, Hugh Ettinger was stationed at Rongerik Atoll [Annotator’s Note: Rongerik Atoll, Marshall...

Norman Riggsby was born on 9 June 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in a small town in Michigan near Detroit. It...

Leroy Fadem was detached from his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Stevens (DD-479)] in October 1944. He flew back to the...

Robert Bassemir was born in May 1924 in Ridgewood, New York. He grew up with a brother and a sister. His brother served...

Norman Raner enlisted on 18 May 1941. He went to Port Des Moines [Annotator's Note: Port of Des Moines, Iowa] and then...

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