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John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...

Robert Frederick Reed was born in January 1921 on a farm near Rochester, Indiana where he lived for his first 18 years...

Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...

Going into the Pacific took 19 days, zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver], in a three-ship...

Walter Groth remembers that military intelligence had underestimated the number of Japanese on the island [Annotator’s...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

David Hanning believes he was lucky that his service happened during a meaningful and necessary requirement. He...

Lowell Rodrigue [Annotator's Note: after joining the crew of the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] headed north to Kiska in the...

Crump and the Chief Engineer had done some work when the seas were calm. The Chief Engineer felt that there was a...

About five days after Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child living in the Philippines during...

Frank Stewart shows the interviewer a photograph that was taken at the naval hospital in San Diego. Bob Day had also...

In Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Everett Hyland did hear rumors of going to war. When out on their two weeks at sea, and at...

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