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

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

McKee was born on September 19, 1921 in Southern Oklahoma. As was the case in most births in those days, he was born on...

James Mather's most memorable experience of World War 2 was learning about the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note:...

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...

Robert Offenbacher was born in Lima, Ohio in September 1922. He had five brothers. He was a twin and one brother was...

Adolph William Amundson was sent to Jacksonville, Florida to train in multi-engine planes. He flew PBY’s [Annotator's...

Paul Gibfried was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in September 1924. When he joined the Navy, he was investigated by the...

Charles Kitching was born in October 1925 in Sanford, Maine. He had one sister that is 10 years younger than him. Due...

Jack Appel was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York...

David Oreck was in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and many others had never...

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