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Robert Fulton and the crew of the USS Houston (CA-30) spent the first day after the Pearl Harbor attack preparing for...

Elizabeth Gibbens was born in January 1920 in Corning, New York. Her father, a schoolteacher at the time, moved the...

Herbert Auerbach was born in June 1922 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended a local high school in what is...

[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...

Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

George Sakato discusses a Vietnam veteran that edits and tapes oral histories. He recalls that before the attack on...

Herb McClure was born in March 1924 in Neodesha, Kansas, the only male and oldest of five siblings. His father had an...

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

Gatewood was born in Decatur, Nebraska in 1921. He lived there until he went into the service. He was in his first...

Emory Maurice Ornelles joined the Army at the Honolulu Armory [Annotator's Note: he had just witnessed Japanese planes...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

Oral History