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John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

James Mather's most memorable experience of World War 2 was learning about the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note:...

Jack D. Samuelson is a World War Two veteran. He was interviewed at 88 years of age in a senior citizens’ home. He met...

Paul Gibfried was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in September 1924. When he joined the Navy, he was investigated by the...

One day in late 1945 Allen Tillery was called in to the office of the colonel and informed that his application for the...

James Britt was born in Asheville, North Carolina in March 1914. His mother worked in a bank. His father served in...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] moved up to the next island because there...

Robert Spint's most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard for him to say. He does not classify any of it. Some of...

Leonard Gaj enlisted in March 1943 because he thought it was his duty to protect the United States of America. It was...

Paul Lefever was born in September 1920 in Strasburg Township, Pennsylvania, the youngest and only son among the three...

Robert Dannehl was playing softball with friends on a Sunday morning, and then came home where his mother and siblings...

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