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The Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, referred to as the Zeke or Zero] was tough to...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

David Hanning believes he was lucky that his service happened during a meaningful and necessary requirement. He...

James Roy Colquitt returned to his home in Alabama after his discharge. He did not have a problem adjusting to civilian...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Joseph LaNier joined the United States Navy in February 1944. African-Americans prior to 1942 were not allowed to join...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

Louis Conter started to talk to school students about Pearl Harbor in 1991. He and other Pearl Harbor attack survivors...

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