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Frank Stewart was standing outside of the White House in Washington D.C. when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor...

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

Walter Bud Gafford was present on the morning of 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked [Annotator's Note: the...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

William Cart was born in April 1922 in Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina]. He grew up on the...

Clyde Nordstrom was born in June 1928 in Minneapolis [Annotator's Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota]. He had a good time...

By December 1941, William Winter was a sophomore at Ole Miss. He went to visit a friend in Cleveland, Mississippi, with...

Sumner Whitten arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, west of Honolulu. The mess from the attack on Pearl Harbor was...

Philip Curran and his family talked about the impending war developments all the time. His grandfather was an avid...

Calvin Barrick grew up on a farm. He had four brothers and one sister but two of his brothers have died. Barrick was...

Richard Higgins joined the Marine Corps in 1940. He was set on the Marine Corps from the beginning. He never considered...

Morton William Werner [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS PC-1220 Patrol Craft] was in the Gulf of Mexico near Key...

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