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Merrill was returning from a search mission just as the Doolittle Raiders were taking off from the Hornet [Annotator's...

Abraham Rosenzweig picked up troops [Annotator’s Note: at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and headed for the invasion of...

Ray Dennis Irby turned 17 in 1941. He was in the backyard of his home in Meridian [Annotator's Note: Meridian,...

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

Ray Anthony joined the Navy rather than the Army. He went to the Great Lakes and Chicago. Eddie Peabody was a...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

On the troop ship out of Pearl Harbor, Holly Rees said there was little to do, and the soldiers played cards and got...

David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

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