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Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

Dean Whittaker was born in March 1925 in Los Angeles, California. He was the second oldest of five children and his...

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

Martin Jacobson was back in Pearl Harbor, having just missed the Battle of Leyte Gulf [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

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

Byron Othello Wilkins, who goes by B.O. Wilkins, was named after his father. He grew up in northeast Arkansas in Luxora...

Boot camp for Louis Smith took place at Parris Island, South Carolina and he found it tough. They shaved his head to...

Leonard Brooks got up to go to school on Monday [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941] morning and that is when he and his...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

James Melvin Crane was born in Conehatta, Mississippi in Newton County. At 15 pounds, he was the largest baby boy in...

[Annotator's Note: The video begins with William Leibold taking the interviewers through a book of photographs. The...

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