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Robert Fulton and the USS Houston (CA-30) sailed in search of the Japanese fleet for a few days before discovering the...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

Ira Milan was born in November 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He grew up during the Great Depression, which was very...

Russell Mayeur and his wife, Eloise, had a child in March 1946. Mayeur was in Boston at the time. The war had ended....

Roger Bowers entered the Army from Pennsylvania when he was 18 years old in 1943. He was sent to Ft. Indiantown Gap,...

Joseph Monteyne goes to schools with about 15 others to talk about the war. The kids are super attentive. His own...

Angelo Joseph Spinato's first four days at sea were beautiful. He was in an 88-ship convoy [Annotator's Note: with...

Lawrence Winnier ate well on his ships [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32) and the USS Argonne (AS-10)]...

Ernest Gross, a prisoner at Kaufering [Annotator’s Note: Kaufering; subcamp of Dachau; Landsberg am Lech, Germany] says...

William McCowen thinks it is important to have the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans,...

Paul Pizzolongo was born in February 1923 in Bronx, New York. His father picked numbers for the bookies and his mom did...

Freeman Dyson met Richard "Dick" Feynman as a student at Cornell University [Annotator's Note: in Ithaca, New York]....

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