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Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

Byron Othello Wilkins, who goes by B.O. Wilkins, was named after his father. He grew up in northeast Arkansas in Luxora...

Gary Tate was born in December 1924 and graduated from high school at 16 years old before the Japanese bombed Pearl...

Josephine Reeves was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 1919. Growing up, Reeves attended the West Catholic...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart was a student at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston,...

Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

Emory Maurice Ornelles joined the Army at the Honolulu Armory [Annotator's Note: he had just witnessed Japanese planes...

Ed Rendelman was born in 1919 in Detroit, Michigan. His family moved to southern Illinois six weeks after he was born...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes was named after his uncle on his father's side. As a kid, he wanted a simple name like...

George Rudloff felt like the Japanese had to be killed. The atrocities committed by the Japanese military were very bad...

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