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Deen was born in McCray, Georgia. His father was the president of South Methodist College. He was one of three kids....

Melvin Munch was part of the invasion of Okinawa when it commenced on Easter Sunday in April 1945. He rode a landing...

Mildred Aupied was influenced by her work at the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

William Pena was born in Laredo, Texas and attended a Catholic middle school and public high school. He was the editor...

Jack Leaming was shipped to the Ofuna prison camp after Yokohama. Baths were in individual tubs with water heaters. The...

Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...

Harry Lockhead was sent to Great Lakes for his Navy boot camp training. The discipline was no different than he had at...

Helen Gagel [Annotator’s Note: born Helen Cosgrove] was born in 1915 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. She had four brothers...

Paul J. Frisco enlisted in the Navy because of his father's service during World War 1 and because of the Navy's...

After the war ended, Dr. Robert Beynon and the USS Bowfin (SS-287) went to Long Island [Annotator's Note: Long Island,...

Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...

John Cassidy recalled a regular day in his division included an early rise, a shower, breakfast and "quarters" which...

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