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Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

Life at the Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] was very good, and Claude...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Oran Harris was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was returning from Sunday school when a man called out...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Louis Conter left the USS Arizona (BB-39) via a liberty boat after her fatal bombing. He boarded the boat near number...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

William Garbo was born in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi. He was in high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor....

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