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Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...

Lowell Rodrigue was born in June 1924 in Edgard, Louisiana, but was raised in St. Rose, Louisiana. His father worked...

Loren Bennett was born in October 1927 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He did not have any siblings....

Raleigh W. Johnson Jr. was born in October 1926 in Houston, Texas. He attended public school from primary to high...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Elmer Koenig was interviewing teachers about why they were leaving. He taught in Los Angeles County [Annotator’s Note:...

After the war ended, the captain of the USS Hampden County (LST-803) threw a huge party in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

James Mather's most memorable experience of World War 2 was learning about the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note:...

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