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Louis Conter started to talk to school students about Pearl Harbor in 1991. He and other Pearl Harbor attack survivors...

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

When assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) in March 1942, Thomas Tizzard was given leave in Sydney, Australia for R...

Lyle Mitchell was born in September 1918 in New York. He had a sister and a brother. His sister is two years younger...

John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note :Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51, USS San Jacinto (CVL-...

Windom Joseph Burton went into Navy boot camp in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia] and was then sent for...

When James Born left Japan and landed in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. He had no...

Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...

Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...

William Lee Barnes was aboard the Bunker Hill [Annotator's Note: USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)] while his crew mates were...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

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