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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...

Ernest Barber was born in September 1924 in rural Mississippi with three brothers and one sister while his father...

Thomas J. Blakey was born in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1920. [Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Blakey where he was...

[Annotator's Note: Lalande takes very long pauses before answering many of the questions he is asked.] Edward Lalande...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285) enjoyed free time at Brisbane [Annotator's...

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

Orville Clayton was born in Fort Payne, Alabama in May 1921. He grew up in a small town. His father was a physician. He...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt worked in an art studio for an artist. He made picture frames and sometimes was used as a model....

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

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