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After getting the alert prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor that Hawaii may be invaded by sea, Clarence Herbert...

Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

Mary R. Stricklan celebrated V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] with her future husband. His...

James Johnson came back to the United States and was supposed to go to an advanced course. They pulled him out and put...

Alton Bourg was born in November 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of nine children. His father was a...

Lavenia Hickman Breaux was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1917. Breaux did not realize she was living through a...

Carl Nygren was stationed in Oklahoma for training. They had to become map readers. They would be dropped in the woods...

Ora Hicks has had an interesting life. If anything went wrong, she did not take it to heart. There is always another...

When he left Paris, Hans Courant went to the Berkeley labs. He stayed there for a while then went to CERN [Annotator's...

Charles Brightman Skinner was born in May 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida. He had an older brother who served in World...

Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax was at home on the morning of the attack. He heard a loud explosion but did not know what...

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