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David Oreck was in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and many others had never...

[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Margaret Brewer Henry was born in Miami, Florida, but she grew up in Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia]. She...

While in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], Victor Yost helped clean the ship. When at sea, Yost...

Joseph Barger was born in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He took a bus to school...

Gretchen Wronka was born in January 1944. Her parents were born in a farming area of Iowa. While her mother was in...

Walter Henry Barton’s job with his regiment [Annotator’s Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Adolph William Amundson's mission on Iwo Jima, Japan was to pick up the wounded and fly them back to a hospital on Guam...

Gerald Claassen was born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in December 1920. His father died at the age of 26 when Claassen was...

Robert Rineer was born in May 1922 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...

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