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Bud Loring was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. His father was an automotive, boat, and heavy construction mechanic....

Nolan Albarado was in the Army but was cooking for the Navy in Hawaii. He returned home to the United States in 1943...

Richard Guthrie was born in November 1933 at the Quantico Marine Corps Air Station in Quantico, Virginia. His father...

Moses Hogan wasn't afraid. He didn't believe America would be attacked by the Japanese; after all, officials from that...

Leon Griffith was born in Magee, Mississippi but raised in Monticello [Annotator's Note: Monticello, Mississippi] on a...

Jackson Davis was working in Naval Intelligence at Pearl Harbor. Davis and other officers were quartered at the...

Louis Cardenas was born in April 1919 in San Antonio, Texas. His father had a good job in the civil service. He was not...

John Finn stayed on .30 and .50 caliber machine guns throughout the battle, but couldn't be sure if he shot down any...

Daniel Samuelson was born in January 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had a brother and a sister. His father was a...

Frederick Ellis was born in Amite, Louisiana in October 1924. His father's business failed in the Great Depression and...

Jacqueline Bishop was born in March 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was an electrician. During the Depression [...

On the battleship, J. W. Childs said, it was mandatory for a sailor to wear his white hat if he went outside of his...

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