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Gene Alair did not find Navy life difficult. He really enjoyed it. After recieving his commission, he was assigned to...

Hugh Wingo was stationed in Galveston [Annotator’s Note: Galveston, Texas] for three or four months. They got the news...

Louis Conter left the USS Arizona (BB-39) via a liberty boat after her fatal bombing. He boarded the boat near number...

William Edwin Howard was born in Grand Island, Florida on his grandfather's farm in July 1924. He fished there on Lake...

Joseph Richard was a welder assigned to the USS Rigel (AR-11) when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. He...

Charlotte Combs was born in April 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She had two little...

Edward Stone was aboard the Pyro [Annotator's Note: USS Pyro (AE-1)] and found the ship had good cooks. That was...

Hewitt Brian Gomez was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in January 1925. He recalled that he was playing football at a...

On 7 December 1941, Ray Emory stayed on his gun all day and all night, without relief. After he saw the USS Oklahoma (...

When Benjamin Troemel came into Kaneohe, there were obstacles on the runway, and he was greeted by a chief with a...

Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Thomas W....

On the morning of 7 December 1941, Roy Boreen enjoyed an early breakfast of pancakes. After breakfast, he went to the...

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