ARTHUR PENDLETON – Corporal, 1st Marine Division (Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Division) On 2 January 1942, at age 20, Arthur found himself among a small group of recruits headed to Paris Island, South Carolina, [Read more]
DONALD STRATTON – Seaman First Class USS Arizona (BB-39) Pearl Harbor is one of those tragic milestones of WWII on which so many subsequent events hinge. It was natural that I would try to find a [Read more]
HOWARD KENTON “KEN” POTTS – Coxswain USS Arizona (BB.39) In an incredible twist of fortune while presenting the logbook to Mr Donald Stratton in Washington DC another USS Arizona survivor was with the group, Mr Ken [Read more]
Wilbur Jackson “Jack” Myers, born in June 1923 in Williamsport, Maryland, served with distinction as a corporal gunner in the U.S. Army’s 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion during World War II. His wartime experiences spanned critical [Read more]
DAVID BAYER – Holocaust survivor Auschwitz and Jaworzno Born to Jewish parents Manes and Sarah Bayer in Kozienice in southeastern Poland, David Bayer was the second of 4 children. His life as a teenager attending [Read more]
Albert Garih is a Holocaust survivor who was born on June 24, 1938, in Paris, France. His parents, Benjamin and Claire Garih, were Sephardic Jews originally from Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), who had moved to [Read more]
Nesse Godin neé Galperin was a Lithuanian Holocaust survivor whose life story stands as a testament to resilience, the horrors of genocide, and the enduring power of memory. Her firsthand accounts, preserved in oral histories [Read more]
Reginald Cherebin, a distinguished Saint Lucian veteran, served in the British West Indies Regiment during World War II. Enlisting in 1942, his military journey began in Trinidad, followed by postings in British Guiana (now Guyana), [Read more]
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