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A few days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Joseph DeMott saw the devastation. With five battleships sunk or...

William Scott Stroud's [Annotator's Note: Stroud was shot down on his first mission in the Pacific, survived ten days...

Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was in aviation cadet training when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

John Witmeyer went to enlist in the United States military the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 8...

Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

Astley Blackwell’s ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] was sunk on 25 October [Annotator's Note: 25...

Meade Willis was born in Plaucheville, Louisiana. His mother died when he was four years old, and he did not get along...

Chester L. Talley was born in Idaho in 1921. He grew up with one older brother and one older sister. His father was a...

Romay Catherine Johnson Davis attended college in New York. She and all of her five brothers served in the military....

Carroll Harris was counting inventory in the grocery store he worked at when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor...

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