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Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

David Dawson was born in October 1924 in Tampa, Florida. They moved to Gary, Indiana when he was two years old. His...

Harold Zeringer arrived at Pearl Harbor after convoy duty from the west coast. He saw the Arizona [Annotator's Note:...

As Paul Ignatius entered his teens, he became aware of the hostilities rising in Europe and Asia. He was also aware of...

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

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus left [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Merchant Marine ship. Once they were...

Mitchell Zimmer and the crew [Annotator's Note: of the submarine USS Snapper (SS-185)] knew that war was on the way. In...

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

Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith's oldest brother, John Joseph, whose nickname was "Jody", enlisted in the Navy prior...

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

Karr recalls having to go up on deck with buckets of water from down below. One of the times he went up to dump a...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

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