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Donald Stratton went aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona (BB-39) put the Missouri to shame...

Martin Suter went to fighter school and was called back to go to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953] in...

Richard Nummer returned to the United States in July 1946 after being in Japan for nine months. While on the trip home...

Most of the tests had to do with navigation. They got off of the ship in Pearl Harbor. Eventually Earnest was told that...

Willis Mills was born in July 1926 and grew up in Holyoke, Colorado. It was a small farming community. His father...

Benjamin Hagans enjoyed fishing. He did not wear clothes until he was six years old. He would climb trees and gather...

James Franklin Young was with his mortar unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

John Reeder remained on active duty, and was sent to the Naval Air Station at Mojave, California for a month, then...

Floyd Annas was born in March 1925 in Granite Falls, North Carolina. He moved to a farm when he was 12 years old. Annas...

When they were heading to Tonga, Fred Bergeron and the rest of his air group were dropped off in Fiji. They flew some...

After the attack, Robert Powers continued moving south towards the battalion CP [Annotator's Note: command post]. They...

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