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George Morgan had the unique experience of entering Tokyo Bay prior to the Japanese surrender. His ship was anchored...

Douglas Harper, one of three sons, grew up in Tri-City Beach, east of Baytown, Texas and south of Cedar Bayou, Texas....

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

Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

Lee R. Broussard was born in December 1925 in Loreauville, Louisiana. His father was a construction worker and then...

Tom Quigley recounts how he was in church when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place and did not even know about the...

Lloyd Duncan was born in 1926 in Coffeyville, Kansas. His father worked for the Sinclair Refinery. Duncan had one...

Courtland Claus will never forget what the Japanese did [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

Carl Landwehr was born in 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never had a lot of money, but they never really...

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

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