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Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Samuel Tso changed his age to join the Marine Corps. He was 18 years old at the time and could not find a job. He went...

After being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila, Philippines], people were...

After bootcamp, Carrel Reavis was sent to Hawaii, where he stayed for the whole war. All he did was load and unload...

Richard Welch joined the Navy in November 1944 and was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training [Annotator's Note: Naval...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Pedro Parra where he was when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Mahlen Arledge arrived at home from his overseas service without fanfare or even a greeting. He was glad to get back to...

Allen Ray Sibley was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: on 24 February 1944]. They put him on a Greyhound bus to...

Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher thought the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was the...

Loren Bennett was born in October 1927 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He did not have any siblings....

James Thomas Womack arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] around 1941. He was on patrol duty...

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