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Hartsel Ross was born in January 1926 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Ross heard the news of the attacks on Pearl Harbor [...

William H. Larson was born in December 1917 in Fremont, Nebraska. His parents were second-generation Scandinavians. His...

William Lee Barnes was born in December 1926 in Cottondale, Florida. He started school in Saint Andrews, Florida but...

Clarence Earl Derrington, Jr. was born in November 1924 in Meridian, Mississippi. His father was in the insurance...

Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was born in Mount Hope, Kansas in November 1921. His family moved to Opelousas [Annotator's Note...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...

They returned to Pearl Harbor but didn't stay long enough for Clayton Fisher to train. He still hadn't made any dives...

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

Harold G. Cowart was born in September 1924 in Statesboro, Georgia. His parents were sharecroppers and he and his 11...

Sullivan Tindal was born in September 1925 in Hampton [Annotator's Note: Hampton, South Carolina]. He grew up on a...

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