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[Annotator's Note: Edgar De Pue Osgood shows a picture of the USS Iowa (BB-61) that he took through a porthole.] That...

Francis J. Cook was born in August 1924 and grew up in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. His father was a barber and Cook...

James White was born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925. As a junior in high school at the time of the Japanese attack on...

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

Daniel Chester was born in February 1925 in Lakewood, Ohio, went through grammar and high school there, and lived in a...

Harold Bergbower completed high school then entered the service at age 19. He was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was...

Donald Witmer was born an only child in September 1924 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His mother died when he was 18...

Shiyuza Hayashi was born near Waialua Sugar Plantation on the west side of the island [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii...

Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes was named after his uncle on his father's side. As a kid, he wanted a simple name like...

Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

Robert Marovelli clearly remembers being in the bathtub on 7 December 1941, when the announcement came over the radio...

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