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Jack A. Gillis was a member of the Army Air Defense observation teams on Hawaii. He was a PFC [Annotator's Note:...

Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

While at the University of Alabama [Annotator's Note: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama], Herndon Inge, Junior was in the infantry...

Joseph Romano was born in May 1923 in Marrero [Annotator's Note: Marrero, Louisiana]. Growing up, there were poor...

Tom Quigley recounts how he was in church when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place and did not even know about the...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes was named after his uncle on his father's side. As a kid, he wanted a simple name like...

Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

Antoinette Underwood signed up for the Army a day or two after Pearl Harbor. She had to go to West Point for an...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....

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