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David K. Hayward was born in May 1922 in San Francisco, California. When he was three, he moved to Pasadena, California...

Robert "Bob" Rickel was born in Toledo, Ohio in July 1923. Rickel's father came to the United States from Poland....

Virginia Wilterdink was born near the Canadian border in Woodland, Maine in October 1922. She was one of five children...

James was there for about 2 or 3 months for ground school. He was then shipped to Lafayette. He did not make his first...

Nick Cristiano was born in July 1925. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. There were great schools. His father owned a...

Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

Rufus Harris signed up for Navy ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] because his dad anticipated the...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry has nearly always been known as Marian Y. Landry with the Y representing her maiden...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

The first time Willie Roy Hebert had ever been on a ship was when he was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

Robert Geller was born in July 1922 and grew up in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. Geller’s...

John S. Johnson heard the bugler blowing a strange call the morning of the Japanese attack on Wake Island. It was an...

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