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Remi Kidder was born in 1926 in Arnaudville, Louisiana. Raised on a farm, Kidder's father was always busy with the...

As Paul Ignatius entered his teens, he became aware of the hostilities rising in Europe and Asia. He was also aware of...

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

After leaving Pearl Harbor, William Roy and the rest of the crew of the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Harold Zeringer arrived at Pearl Harbor after convoy duty from the west coast. He saw the Arizona [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

Mitchell Zimmer and the crew [Annotator's Note: of the submarine USS Snapper (SS-185)] knew that war was on the way. In...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

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