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Jimmy Doi was born in Oxnard, California in 1925. Growing up in California was great until the war started. Doi was 16...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

Bill Norberg remembers Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] exerting his power prior to the start of...

Paris Tognoli was born in December 1924 in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. They later...

Donald Long performed defensive beach guard duty in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack. Shortly afterward, he...

After his discharge, Ray Emory went to college to study architecture and graduated from the University of Washington....

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

On the troop ship out of Pearl Harbor, Holly Rees said there was little to do, and the soldiers played cards and got...

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

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Leo Terrebonne was born in Westwego, Louisiana in 1923, the third of three children. Both of his parents were Cajuns. [...

Fred A. Aldridge was born in Orlando, North Carolina. After graduating high school in September 1935 he enlisted in the...

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