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

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Boot camp for Louis Smith took place at Parris Island, South Carolina and he found it tough. They shaved his head to...

Lewis M. Lee, Sr.'s most memorable experience of the war was Pearl Harbor, and he remarks that we didn't have a...

Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command...

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

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

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

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

William Kahn was born in August 1925, to immigrant parents. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland where his father ran a...

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

Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

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