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Kenneth Beard was born on a farm in Sullivan, Ohio in March 1922. He took a farm wagon to school and grew up in a home...

Joseph F. McGee Junior flew 97 missions in World War 2 [Annotator's Note: with the 460th Fighter Squadron, 348th...

George N. Boutwell was born in July 1924 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up with one older brother and a younger sister...

Arley Jett was born in 1922 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He grew up in Canoe, Kentucky and near Cincinnati, Ohio....

Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...

Joe Morris was born in Daisy, Georgia in September 1925. Two years later, he and his family moved to Jacksonville [...

Raleigh W. Johnson Jr. was born in October 1926 in Houston, Texas. He attended public school from primary to high...

Herbert W. Ridyard was in high school when he listened to President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Chris Daley was born in October 1923 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He grew up in a small town. His father owned a wholesale...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

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