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

Clifton Trahan was born in October 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was put in an orphanage at five years old. His...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

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

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

Frederick Hollis saw the mood of the country after Kasserine Pass as being very negative. With many ships lost at Pearl...

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

Daniel Farley tried to enlist in the Marine Corps but they turned him down. He then went to the Army and they took him...

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

Lester M. Bornstein was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in February 1925. As a child he was very athletic and played a...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer and interviewee introducing themselves.] Raymond VanDuzer was...

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