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Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Frederick Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He grew up in the fields. His father was a college...

Herbert Fontenot joined the Navy because it was the only branch that would accept him at 16 years of age. He loved his...

Eugene Henry Gierka was born in August 1924 in Albany, New York. His parents came from Poland. His father ran a butcher...

Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

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

Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

When Allen Tillery got there [Annotator's Note: to Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Eniwetok in Febraury 1944] he was...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Seadragon. Killam had reported aboard...

Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...

Dorothy Decker Ehlers was born in December 1931 in Long Beach, California and grew up there during the depression years...

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