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On 7 December 1941, Armando Gelella rose early and with leave papers in hand, went to breakfast with a buddy who was to...

Around noon on 7 December 1941, James Shoemaker, his family, and friends were still hiding in the bomb shelter [...

Robert Liles was born in 1920 in Webb City, Missouri and grew up in Jefferson City. When the depression began, his...

Takea Iguchi and his family boarded a Japanese ship, and the Americans boarded a Swedish ship. Iguchi had a new bicycle...

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert was born in April 1921 in Farmington, New Hampshire. He had an older sister and younger...

Russell Clay was aboard the USS Helena (CL-50) when it departed California for Hawaii. She spent ten months there...

Olin Tisdale was born in April 1925 in Bluff Springs, Florida. Although his father had a farm and ran a grocery store...

Mason Brownell Fitch views the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on...

Warren Nolan had an older brother who was kind of the pioneer of the family. The family is Catholic, so the brother...

Sunday, 7 December 1941 was just like any other Sunday for Fred Aldridge and his fellow sailors. When an alarm sounded...

Jim Stumpfa is 94 years old [Annotator's Note: at the time of this interview]. He was in the US Coast Guard for four...

In Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Everett Hyland did hear rumors of going to war. When out on their two weeks at sea, and at...

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