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The morning that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Paul Wilson had moved to north Oklahoma City [Annotator's Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] when Pearl Harbor happened [...

Ernest Jackson was sitting in a movie theater watching a musical when the movie was stopped and it was announced that...

Walter Knapps was a Marine Corps security guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning...

Henry Heim was a waist gunner for nine months in Hawaii. Then came Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

Rita Hymel was asked to be a teacher because she lived the closest to the schoolhouse in Killona [Annotator's Note:...

Ray Snyder's acceptance into Annapolis was delayed a year, and while waiting, he had begun classes at what is now the...

Leonard Brooks and his family were on their way back [Annotator's Note: to the Philippines] when the Blitzkrieg started...

Thomas Kolesa was born in July 1924. He married at 18 and had three children. He is originally from Illinois and moved...

En route to his battle station, Robert Kinzler had a clear view of Pearl Harbor, which was a mass of black smoke, with...

Gerald V. West was born in Glens Falls, New York in October 1919. His family owned a farm of about 140 acres and West's...

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