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Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Alois Kopp volunteered to go on the USS Houston (CA-30) in 1939 for deployment overseas. The ship was stationed in...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

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