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Lorraine Achee's father had died when they were very young. Her mother would mention the pending war news once in a...

Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...

Donald Long completed his radio training at Alameda and was transferred by ship to Pearl Harbor as part of VP-12 [...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

Anton Jaber was born in June 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He grew up there and his mother died when he was two...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...

Douglas Harper said the raid lasted two hours, then, when things quieted down, a truck came by asking for volunteers to...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

Russell Engel was born in Vesta, Minnesota, the son of a farmer who left the farm to work in oil refineries in Caspar,...

Archie Kelley realized he was a raw ensign [Annotator's Note: lowest rank of commissioned officer in the US Navy and...

Surviving the aerial attack on his B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber], Earl Williams and...

James J. McDermott was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in October 1920. He worked for a brick manufacturing plant and...

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