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Lorraine Achee could not believe the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and she did not really understand it. They had...

Salvatore Famularo was sent home on a C-54 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-54 Skymaster cargo aircraft]. There were no...

Olin Tisdale's newly launched ship was meant to take a Seabee unit to Iwo Jima to refurbish landing strips. However,...

Archibald Higgins was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. He did not know where the location...

Norris Waddill was born in Coryell County in Ireland, Texas in 1922 and grew up on his grandfather's ranch. He had a...

Wallace G. Hurley was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1923. His mother and father divorced. His alcoholic father headed...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar De Pue Osgood shows a picture of the USS Iowa (BB-61) that he took through a porthole.] That...

George Rudloff felt like the Japanese had to be killed. The atrocities committed by the Japanese military were very bad...

[Annotator's Note: Helen Kushnir was in grade school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

Shiyuza Hayashi was born near Waialua Sugar Plantation on the west side of the island [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii...

Thomas Wicker received orders to serve on an oilier, which he was not thrilled about. He graduated from Tulane...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

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