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Charles Slay was born in December 1921 in Holloway, Louisiana. He was one of the first boys in the area to finish high...

C. Charles Collie, Jr. was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1922 and grew up there. He left in 1940 to enroll in the...

Herbert Lloyd Wilkerson was born on a farm in Obine County, Tennessee in October 1919, the oldest and only son of two...

Gene R. Jerabek was born in Winfield, Pennsylvania in December 1917. She grew up on a farm. They had electricity in the...

Cyril A. Buchert, Jr. was born in June 1922 in New Orleans. He grew up during the Depression. His father worked as a...

When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...

Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...

Theodore Wessen and the USS Pirate (AM-257) performed minesweeping operations off Korea and then went to Sasebo, Japan...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

Walter Atwood was born Lebanon, Kansas in February 1922. He grew up on a farm. He had to milk cows before and after...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

John Morrow volunteered to stay in the service after the war ended in Europe. The atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki...

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