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After Pearl Harbor, Herbert Gross was drafted. He had a brief basic training program. By August 1942, he had started...

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

Frank L. Lombardo was born in January 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended a boarding school in Covington,...

[Annotator's Note: Frank Purvis was in New York when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

James Lee's parents said the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

Although Donald Popham loved the mechanics of building planes, he did not stay in the aircraft industry after the war....

Lorraine Achee could not believe the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and she did not really understand it. They had...

James Deal was born in Woodleaf, North Carolina in November 1922. He was raised on a farm. There were 12 in the family...

Robert Butler Whitcomb was born in Scipio, Indiana. When he was about six his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

After V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Albert Reale spent another six months in the...

David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

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