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Oliver Brewster was born in 1926 in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. He had three sisters. His father was a sharecropper, and...

Harold Lightell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1923. Growing up was wonderful in New Orleans. He loved the...

Meade Willis was born in Plaucheville, Louisiana. His mother died when he was four years old, and he did not get along...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Dye served in the Navy aboard USS LSM-232.] There were 60 men and 6 officers on their crew....

Lyle Mitchell remembers his wife had to work when she was brought to Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

James Read Kirk was 17 years old and in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was working in an office in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania of the United States Steel Corporation...

Joseph John Mammino was unaware of the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression was a global economic...

On the morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941, Maurice Hackler and a friend were driving to a wildlife area to go rabbit...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Before he could finish his schooling, Philip Schmidt was drafted into the Army. He knew several people that had been...

Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...

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