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Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

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

Thomas Murphy was born in New York City in 1926. His mother died during the birth and he was raised by guardians in...

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

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

Buck Donaldson was involved in school. He would make the honor roll. He would participate in the plays. They moved to...

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

Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

Joseph Richard was a welder aboard the USS Rigel (AR-11) when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He took a small boat...

Firman Balza lost track of time until mid-afternoon. He heard that his division officer, Mr. Crow, had been killed by...

Four days prior to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

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