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Gabriel Spinelli began his active duty in March 1943. His basic training took place in Sacramento at a facility that...

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

When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

Owen Gibb was born in Canada in 1925. His parents were farmers. He was raised on a farm in Alberta [Annotator’s Note:...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

The war started and 50 of Charles Wesley Borders' classmates went to Canada to join the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal...

Edward E. Boyles remembered that there was always pranks going on between the Army and the Navy. Boyles remembered one...

Gus Blass, II was born in May 1923 in Little Rock, Arkansas. His family did not have much money during the Great...

Mary R. Stricklan was born in May 1919 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: Gordon County, Georgia]. Growing up there was...

James Melvin Crane was born in Conehatta, Mississippi in Newton County. At 15 pounds, he was the largest baby boy in...

Herman Prager witnessed the end of the war while on Midway Island. Following Midway, he sailed to Pearl Harbor for rest...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

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