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As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...

It was getting dark when they took off after the Japanese fleet. The most Jack Glass had flown up to that point was...

En route to his battle station, Robert Kinzler had a clear view of Pearl Harbor, which was a mass of black smoke, with...

Floyd Fogg was born in April 1926 in Lacombe, Louisiana. When he was three years old, his family moved to Slidell,...

Edward Bale heard of a Japanese soldier throwing a magnetic mine on a tank inland of Red 3 beach. He did not learn the...

Michael Mervosh kept his binoculars in his pack the rest of the battle and he is thankful that he did. About a week...

Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

Alfred A. Lingo was born in San, Jose, Costa Rica in March 1914. His father was a civilian engineer for United Fruit...

He was asleep in his bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, CA38] early in the morning of...

Paris Tognoli and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, Americal...

Peter Dipol recalled that most of the patrols [Annotator's Note: which he went on while serving with the 108th Engineer...

Drafted into the Army in 1943, Peter Paret was thrown in with unfamiliar types, and became a fairly solitary man. His...

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