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John Laborde was at home and sitting down to Sunday lunch when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was in ROTC [...

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

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

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

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

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

Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...

Robert Templet was on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese bombed Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands [Annotator's...

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

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

Joseph Richard was a welder assigned to the USS Rigel (AR-11) when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. He...

Edward Stone was aboard the Pyro [Annotator's Note: USS Pyro (AE-1)] and found the ship had good cooks. That was...

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