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Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Jack Linscott was born in December 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had two sisters and one brother. He was 16 years...

Harold Bergbower completed high school then entered the service at age 19. He was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was...

Archibald Higgins was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. He did not know where the location...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Normand F. Gallichant was born in March 1921 in Danielson, Connecticut. He had four brothers. His father was a mechanic...

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

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