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Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

Stanley Harvey Bender chose the enlist in the Marine Corps. He liked the dress blue uniform, and one of his father’s...

Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

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

Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....

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

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...

Nolan Ruiz was born in August 1924 near Donaldsonville, Louisiana. His father died when he was four years old and his...

Joseph Rockforte was born in 1922 in what is now Plaquemine, Louisiana. After he was born his father moved the family...

Elizabeth Barrett was at a loss, she said, as to her own husband's whereabouts or well being. When he got back to the...

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