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Donald Long performed defensive beach guard duty in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack. Shortly afterward, he...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

Malcolm Johnson was a civilian contractor for Morrison-Knudsen [Annotator’s Note: American civil engineering and...

Tom Quigley recounts how he was in church when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place and did not even know about the...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

Merlin C. Smith was born in December 1925 in Baker, Louisiana. He had had two brothers and one sister. The family lived...

James Flannigan was born in Detroit, Michigan, an only child of parents and grandparents who were big time cattle...

Gabriel Spinelli began his active duty in March 1943. His basic training took place in Sacramento at a facility that...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Wallace G. Hurley was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1923. His mother and father divorced. His alcoholic father headed...

Robert Fulton and the crew of the USS Houston (CA-30) spent the first day after the Pearl Harbor attack preparing for...

Theodore Finkbeiner was the middle child between a brother and sister. He had just started Northeast Junior College [...

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