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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Battle Malone Barksdale was married to his wife Grace for 66 years. They were married on 29 August 1939. After they...

Everett Hyland's wounds still bother him. He had a nerve check done on him in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego,...

Earl Williams recounts his experiences as an assistant crew chief assigned to a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

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