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Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Mahlen Arledge received his draft notice in July 1943 and went into service the next month. He elected to go into the...

Emil Kesselman liked being a civilian and a father, and did not have any ideas of going back in the service [Annotator’...

As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...

Robert Barnett was born in November 1926 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] and has lived there all of...

James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...

[Annotator's Note: You can hear someone off camera throughout this segment.] David Lansou believes that the way...

Floyd James Reissig was a Petty Officer 3rd Class in the Navy. He served as a Coxswain [Annotator's Note: person in...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...

When Charles Womack and the other Marines in his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

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