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Frank J. Waldeck was born in May 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended high school there before studying accounting and...

Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

Chester Biernacki and the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] returned to the United States after the Pearl...

While stationed at Wheeler Field [Annotator's Notes: Wheeler Army Airfield, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] with the 14th Pursuit...

Daniel J. Lennon was born in February 1925 in Vienna, Austria. His father was in graduate school for medicine. They...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Warren Nolan went to Pearl Harbor aboard a Navy troop transport ship. It took about six days to get there. He was then...

Leo Terrebonne was born in Westwego, Louisiana in 1923, the third of three children. Both of his parents were Cajuns. [...

Merlin Smith left Oakland on a shakedown cruise on his new ship [Annotator's Note: USS Goshen (APA-108)]. Afterward,...

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