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William Garbo was born in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi. He was in high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor....

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Perry Strait received no benefits from his service in the Merchant Marines or the Maritime Service. It was difficult to...

Jack T. Beverstein was born in 1925 in South Bend, Indiana. He grew up during the Great Depression, but it had little...

Odell Wallace Vaughn was born in December 1921 in Greenville, South Carolina and grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Jack Yusen still frequently thinks about the men who died [Annotator's Note: when his ship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (...

Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Holly Frederick Reynolds was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. She was born in Virginia because her mother was there at the...

About eight months after the Helena went down [Annotator's Note: the USS Helena (CL-50) was sunk during the Battle of...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

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