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Henry A. Tacket began training at Treasure Island in San Francisco for his assignment to a new destroyer. That was...

Gabriel Spinelli began his active duty in March 1943. His basic training took place in Sacramento at a facility that...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

Standifer was born on April 24th, 1925 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was walking down the street in Clinton, Mississippi...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Jules Levin remembered he knew he would be drafted once the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. He received his draft...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

David Oreck trained as a civilian pilot for the Lend-Lease Program [Annotator's Note: An Act to Promote the Defense of...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Merlin C. Smith was born in December 1925 in Baker, Louisiana. He had had two brothers and one sister. The family lived...

Erwin Blonder was sent to a hospital in Illinois for his trench foot. He remembers another incident regarding his...

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