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Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson was born in Bronson, Florida in December 1927. He had five brothers and sisters. His father, an...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm graduated from high school and turned 18, but had no thoughts about going to college or...

James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Henry L Baul was born in December 1922 in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His family moved to Florida when Baul was young. His...

Ernest Cowell thinks being on shore in the Army is different from being at sea in the Navy. In the Navy, he did not...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

[Annotator’s Notes: There is a lot of background noise throughout this segment.] Jack H. Bleuler was born in 1923 and...

Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...

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