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In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

Calvin B. Moore was born in December 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was...

Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

When Allen Tillery got there [Annotator's Note: to Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Eniwetok in Febraury 1944] he was...

[Annotator's Note: There is loud background noise throughout this clip.] Willie Roy Hebert, hates his first name of...

Norman Hatch was asleep at his place in New York on the morning of 7 December 1941. He had preset his radio to turn on...

Beverly Coleman Oates Rougas was relieved when the war ended. Everyone felt safe and happy. Rougas thinks it is...

Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

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