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

Bernard Baker was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February 1924. He grew up with nine siblings. An older...

Charles R. Smith was a senior in high school on 8 December [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941]. They were asked to go...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...

Charles Chatterton was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1925. and grew up in the nearby town of Quincy. He...

George W. McCarthy was a senior in high school and with friends when he found out about the Pearl Harbor attack [...

Ralph Morse was born in Manhattan in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in October 1917. His father...

Clarence Carlson was born Kittson, Minnesota in June 1921. His family moved to Svea Township where he attended school...

Chester L. Talley was born in Idaho in 1921. He grew up with one older brother and one older sister. His father was a...

June Tinker's mother started worrying about the impact of the war on her sons soon after Pearl Harbor. Tinker's two...

Gerry Jones was painting radio towers in California when he heard the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

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