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Wesley Waggoner remembers the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Cary Salter was born in December 1921 near Macon, Mississippi. His father was a country doctor. They lived seven miles...

Kenneth R. Williams was born in Alton, Illinois in March 1922. He was an only child. He grew up in Illinois and Ohio....

William Colgan was born in Quitman, Georgia. In 1930, when Colgan was only 10 years old, his father died, leaving his...

William Splichal was born in May 1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska. His father worked for the city and his mother raised the...

Blaine Kern was born in Algiers, a suburb of New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. During the...

Blaine Kern went to Czechoslovakia to tour the glass industry. The secret police were following him. He has a factory...

John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....

James Britt was born in Asheville, North Carolina in March 1914. His mother worked in a bank. His father served in...

Russell Schuman was born in 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up with an older brother, who later worked an...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS Potomac (AG-25) in Washington D.C. while he served with the Navy. He was visiting...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

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