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William Kahn was born in August 1925, to immigrant parents. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland where his father ran a...

Robert Templet was aboard the USS Roxanne (AKA-37) when the Japanese surrendered. During the course of the war, the...

Floyd Annas was born in March 1925 in Granite Falls, North Carolina. He moved to a farm when he was 12 years old. Annas...

Nolan Ruiz was born in August 1924 near Donaldsonville, Louisiana. His father died when he was four years old and his...

Joseph Rockforte was born in 1922 in what is now Plaquemine, Louisiana. After he was born his father moved the family...

William Garbo was born in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi. He was in high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor....

Harry George Paege, Junior had his 21st birthday in the service. He was a bugler. He got a letter that said his mother...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

Donald Long performed defensive beach guard duty in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack. Shortly afterward, he...

Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

Weldon Fruge was born in January 1925 in Eunice, Louisiana. His parents were sharecroppers, moving from farm to farm...

Austin Hustead was born in 1923 in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, where he also spent his youth. The youngest of three...

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