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Life was rather simple in Honolulu, Hawaii when Ray Emory got there in October 1941. He didn't drink in those days, so...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13),...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

Paul Harless was born in Corryton, Tennessee in December 1921. His father worked in various jobs during the Great...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

Jack Yusen still frequently thinks about the men who died [Annotator's Note: when his ship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (...

Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...

James Born commented on the damage he saw in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan]. Many of the buildings were damaged...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

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