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Wesley John Dochick was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Harold Beal was born in October 1925. He had two brothers and three sisters. He was driving a truck by the time he was...

James W. Metcalf was born in Toledo, Ohio in September 1924. When he was still an infant, Metcalf’s father moved the...

Hugh Ettinger and his friend R.J.’s plane landed in Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and they were...

Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...

Olaf Rose was born in August 1921 in Pontiac, Michigan, and was the oldest of four children. His father was in the...

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

Eugene Corson was born in March 1922 in Stanford, Connecticut. In 1936, his father got a job working on submarines in...

George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

When Ralph Weymouth left Guadalcanal he returned to the United States. He was flown to Noumea where he boarded the SS...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

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