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Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

Dr. Peter Paret, military historian and author, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, and his youth and life were shaped...

Melvin C. Whitman did his basic training in San Diego [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San...

Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

Leo William Schmittgens was born in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] in February 1926. He had four...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

Charles Wesley Borders retired from the United States Air Force on 1 September 1971. He got to be a Wing Commander...

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Pedro Parra where he was when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

There were plenty of men with shell shock [Annotator's Note: psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to...

oy Stewart [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] saw Japanese Zeros [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

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