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David Flynn has written an account of the events of 7 December 1941. He recorded receiving the announcement of the...

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Maynard David grew up on a farm west of Topeka, Kansas. He went to high school in Silver Lake, Kansas and graduated in...

Obie Wickersham was born in March 1925 in Oklahoma. One of the legacies of his father's World War 1 service was...

James Albert Kitts was born in August 1925 in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the oldest child with two brothers and four...

Wilbur Rogers was born in August 1925 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, the youngest of six boys and three girls. His wasn't a...

John L. Cowan did not know or care what a Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic...

Richard Scholl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920. His father worked for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...

Stanley Harvey Bender chose the enlist in the Marine Corps. He liked the dress blue uniform, and one of his father’s...

Harry Carlson was born in October 1924 in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He grew up there as a single child. His father...

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