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Louis Block was born in December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and went to school there. He lost his mother at...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

William Burkett was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] was not hard...

Clarence Strobel’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was serving in the honor guard for General MacArthur [...

William Douglas Lansford was born in 1922 in Los Angeles. His father was an Anglo from Texas and his mother was a...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout this segment.] After a long wait, Rawley R....

Robert Hammond's medical training was in suturing, and one of his major challenges on Guam occurred when there were no...

Abner Aust was determined to get 30 years in the service. He had good jobs and he did good jobs. He had good crews who...

A few minutes after 7:00 [Annotator's Note: 7:00 a.m., 7 December 1941] one of the plotters made some entries on the...

John Stiles was on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] and it was rather primitive. They got water out of...

James Roy Colquitt had his Navy boot camp training at San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. He was...

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