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Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

Morton Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1926. He grew up there, with younger twin siblings, the...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was born in Elgin, North Dakota in January 1926. His father had a farm, but they moved in 1941 to...

Austin Hustead was born in 1923 in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, where he also spent his youth. The youngest of three...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Frederick Hollis saw the mood of the country after Kasserine Pass as being very negative. With many ships lost at Pearl...

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

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