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The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

John Singlaub compared British to American parachutes. The British chute was different in many ways compared to the...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

On the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Marthe Cohn was able to make a living until she joined the Army [Annotator's Note: First French Army in November 1944...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Keith Kiefer was not sure that college was the right path for him. He considered going into the service. He and two...

While Robert Frederick Reed was stationed in El Centro [Annotator’s Note: El Centro, California before being deployed...

Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...

Attack on 23 October 1944

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