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Alvin Barnes was born December in 1925 in Minden, Nebraska. His family moved from the small Midwestern town and bought...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

Charles Fitts, Jr. was born in December 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He lived there until he was about four years old....

Benjamin Clark Amsden was born in his mother's hometown of Springfield, Ohio in October 1922. He was there for three...

John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...

John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...

Once Utah Beach was secured, Jack Gutman returned to England with the evacuees, and wound up in the officers' ward. His...

Garland Miller Gallaspy was born in Ottawa, Oklahoma in November 1922. His family moved all over the Southeast while he...

Harley Reynolds had never been more than 20 or 30 miles away from home. In one day’s time, he more than exceeded that...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...

Bernard Allen Dearey was born in August 1927 in Perry, Iowa. He was an only child. He was a letter carrier for the post...

Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

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