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After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

James Paul Lynch's skipper [Annotator's Note: his captain, aboard the USS Snook (SS-279)], Chuck Triebel [Annotator's...

A.C. Thomas remembers they came out of their pup tent [Annotator's Note: small sleep tents often shared by two soldiers...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer. His job was to make sure the plane was...

John Kreutzberg’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on...

Abraham Rosenzweig suffered from a punctured eardrum when an explosion occurred near his boat near the island [...

Grace Brown was at her sister's home when she heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Gerald Claassen was born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in December 1920. His father died at the age of 26 when Claassen was...

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

Frank Jasicko was born in March 1924 in Tracy, Montana and grew up in nearby Great Falls. He enjoyed playing sports....

Robert Fitz was born in March 1925 in South Bridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children. He was very young...

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