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Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

Edward Stone benefited from his service because of the education and good job he obtained through the utilization of...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Alton R. Barnes was born in December 1923 in Oxford, Alabama. He grew up in Talladega County where his father was in...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

Lavenia Breaux wanted to go in the service after Pearl Harbor. She always had a dream of traveling and realized the...

Warren Nolan went to Pearl Harbor aboard a Navy troop transport ship. It took about six days to get there. He was then...

[Annotator's Note: Joyce Sherman completed Nurses training and enlisted in the Army on 1 June 1943.] It was wartime and...

Jack T. Beverstein was born in 1925 in South Bend, Indiana. He grew up during the Great Depression, but it had little...

Leo Terrebonne was born in Westwego, Louisiana in 1923, the third of three children. Both of his parents were Cajuns. [...

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