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David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

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

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

Sherwin Callander's voyage to Australia consisted of stops in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. It was winter and the ship...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

Harry George Paege, Junior had his 21st birthday in the service. He was a bugler. He got a letter that said his mother...

Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...

Helmi McHardy was born on a dairy farm in Austin, Michigan in February 1927. She is one of nine children. On the farm,...

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

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

Loevsky was born on Long Island, New York. He was 1 of 3 children.His father worked in a bronze factory. He was a young...

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