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M. Edward Melton was born in Henderson, Kentucky in June 1925. He had a happy childhood. They had no money, but neither...

Lynn Compoton had just played football against USC when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Compton woke up to hearing people talk...

Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

Richard Edward Gile was born in Buffalo, New York in March 1923. He recalled the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

A few days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Joseph DeMott saw the devastation. With five battleships sunk or...

Harold Jones was born in February 1924 in Mead, Colorado and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. He was a Depression [...

Returning to his prewar life, Holly Rees remembered when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Roland M. Lee was born in Punta Gorda, Florida where he grew up and attended high school. The town population was only...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Gerald “Gerry”...

Russell Van Matre enlisted in the US Army in December 1942. For the year between then and Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Arthur Fishman had one sister growing up. His mother died when he was six years old. A few years later, his father...

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