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Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...

Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

George Scholes was flown to Pearl Harbor, which was just a muddy mess then. Much of the damage from the attack had been...

Homer Myers was born in Union Grove, North Carolina in October 1924. His parents worked hard on a little farm. He got...

William Garbo was born in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi. He was in high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor....

Guy Stern had come to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1937 when he was 15 years old to escape Nazi Germany. He tried, but...

Donald Witmer was on the USS Twiggs (DD-591) for its shakedown cruise to Bermuda. It was Christmas of 1943, and Witmer...

Roy Uthes was born in June 1923. He had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up in a large home and was the youngest...

Wynn Bauer was born Clay Center, Kansas in September 1923. He grew up on a farm. He went to a two-room school with...

Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...

Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...

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