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Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....

George A. Damiano had issues with a new commanding officer [Annotator's while serving on occupation duty in Korea with...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

After the war, Fiske Hanley was involved in testifying against the Kenpeitai. By then, Hanley was married and had a...

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

Paul Kerchum was born in January 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. His father was a Russian immigrant and his mother his mother...

Vernon Micheel sailed on a freighter manned by a crew from Ceylon [Annotator's Note: now Sri Lanka, November 1942]. He...

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

As time went by, Thomas Crosby and his family had to assimilate to the changes going on in the internment camp [...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. had a good life aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)]. He had multiple...

Bruno S. Rinas was born in Towner County, North Dakota, in January 1919. He had 12 siblings, but two died in infancy,...

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