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Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

Albert G. Sutcliffe was born 12 May 1925 in Bisbee, Arizona. When he was about two years old his family moved to Los...

During the initial attack Rogers was in the bushes away from the air field and could see them fly over. That was around...

Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

One night, Floyd James Reissig called general quarters while sailors were sleeping on the deck. There was an...

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and other internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

Michael Maziarczyk was born in July 1922. He was raised on a farm in Cameron, Pennsylvania. His mother had 14 children...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

When James Bollich ran out of food, he started hunting. He was using World War 1 era ammunition. One day while hunting...

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