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Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Oran Harris said that while he was on Palawan, he learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt had died, and the news made him...

Joseph Romano was born in May 1923 in Marrero [Annotator's Note: Marrero, Louisiana]. Growing up, there were poor...

Walter Ram went through basic training for the Army. He was discharged after a year in the Army. When the Japanese...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

James Deal was born in Woodleaf, North Carolina in November 1922. He was raised on a farm. There were 12 in the family...

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

Tom Quigley recounts how he was in church when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place and did not even know about the...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

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