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Nolan Albarado went to basic training in San Diego, California. From there his unit [Annotator's Note: 133rd...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Harold Ward remembers that it was quiet after they secured from general quarters. Around three in the afternoon they...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe was with the 1st Defense Battalion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.] They were on a guard duty...

Benjamin Bederson always knew he would be a scientist, but in 1942, he began his military career in the Army. He was 20...

Walter Broll always had a haircut on Saturday. He would then go to confession since he was raised a Catholic. On one...

Edward Driscoll was born in January 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sixth of 13 children. His father was a city...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for service with the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator...

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

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