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

Lavenia Breaux wanted to go in the service after Pearl Harbor. She always had a dream of traveling and realized the...

George Sakato was born in Colton, California at a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific hub for the Railroad company. His...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry Butch OHare] really invented the Thatch Weave and Thatch's name was...

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

Henry H. Mahier was born in July 1926 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up in the country north of town, on family...

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

Donelson Houseman was born in Dallas, Texas in 1923 and grew up there. After graduating high school, he began classes...

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

Alexander Marsh was born in November 1922, one of eight children, on a farm in Hardee County, Florida. As a young man,...

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