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Richard N. Swanson was born in May 1922 in Des Moines, Iowa. When he was four years old, he moved to Mead, Nebraska and...

Walter Bud Gafford feels many young people do not know about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

On 7 December 1941, James Shoemaker was reading the Sunday comics, when he heard explosions. He went outside to see...

William Roy was on the USS Yorktown [Annotator's Note: CV-5] when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Yorktown was at Pier 7...

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

George Allen was born in September 1925 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He had two sisters growing up there with him. His...

Sterling Cale was on night duty at the shipyard dispensary in the Navy yard before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had...

Thomas E. Warne and his family were living outside Honolulu [Annotator’s Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] where his father owned...

George Colburn was born in Medford, Massachusetts in March 1926. His sister died as an infant and he grew up alone. His...

Frank Golemi was born in November 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a butcher and had his own shop. They...

Chester Biernacki and the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] returned to the United States after the Pearl...

Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...

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