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Henry Heim was a waist gunner for nine months in Hawaii. Then came Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack...

Anderson Wilson was born in March 1923 in Lake Washington, Mississippi. His mother died when he was three years old....

Theodore Skare was born in April 1924 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois when he was baby...

Donald Long did not know what to make of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Hawaii. [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Dr. Robert Beynon was born in August 1924 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1942 and enlisted in the Navy....

William Anderson was born in August 1924 in Weldon, Iowa. He grew up on a farm and remembers milking cows before he...

David Flynn describes life on the Houston [Annotator's Note: USS Houston (CA-30)] as very busy; he never had a chance...

Norman Sterrie thought Hawaii was a nice experience for a man from the mid-west [Annotator's Note: Sterrie was from St...

On the morning of 7 December 1941, Richard Schlink was standing watch as the duty Pharmacist's Mate [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Knapps was a Marine Corps security guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning...

Angelo Ciotta wanted to be a Marine because he knew their history and he had seen the movie "Wake Island" twice. He saw...

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