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Erwin Johnson was an aircraft mechanic at Fort McKinley in Manila, Philippines when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor...

Helmi McHardy was born on a dairy farm in Austin, Michigan in February 1927. She is one of nine children. On the farm,...

Alan K. Simpson compares the attack on Pearl Harbor with the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks. He feels that the Japanese...

Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

Perry Smith saw the Second World War as a turning point for the United States. No longer could the nation back out of...

Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...

Frederick Grun returned to the United States by way of Hawaii. The four days he spent quartered at Hospital Point in...

Chester Biernacki and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] were on the way to Guadalcanal when they met up...

Robert Heller was born in December 1921 in Lake Wood, Ohio and became a member of the United States Army's 91st Bomb...

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

Alton R. Barnes was born in December 1923 in Oxford, Alabama. He grew up in Talladega County where his father was in...

Henry A. Tacket was aboard the USS Heermann (DD-532) when the invasion of the Philippines started. The initial landings...

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