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Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Earl Colson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November 1924. He had two brothers. His dad was a caretaker at the...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

Doctor Frances Tunnell Carter was born in May 1922 in Springville, Mississippi. Her father was an insurance man during...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

Robert Marovelli clearly remembers being in the bathtub on 7 December 1941, when the announcement came over the radio...

Bernard Friedenberg had his basic training at Fort Hancock. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he was working with his...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

Jack A. Gillis was a member of the Army Air Defense observation teams on Hawaii. He was a PFC [Annotator's Note:...

Peter Harry was born in May 1924. He had two brothers in the service during the war. His father worked for a sink...

Barbara Pathe was born in Bethel, Ohio. She lived there until she was eight years old. She had an older brother, an...

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