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Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

Wiley stayed on the Portland [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS Portland, CA-33] for 2 days and slept on the...

[Annotator's Note: The interview video skips a bit in the beginning.] Richard Thelen was born in March 1927 and grew up...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...

Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...

Andrew Leblanc, Junior was born in July 1926 in McCall [Annotator's Note: McCall, Louisiana]. He had seven sisters and...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

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