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Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

After about three years at sea on different ships, Lewis M. Lee, Sr. went back to Pearl Harbor where he got orders back...

Donald Witmer didn't know what his fate would be. He thought he was drifting toward the beach, one that was held by the...

Harry W. Lockhead was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1925. He grew up in Chatham where his step-father had a butcher...

Paul Amrod was born in November 1926 in Saugerties, New York, the tenth of 11 children. His father, a Lebanese...

John L. Cowan did not know or care what a Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic...

The ship [Annotator's Note: the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13)] wasn't at Pearl Harbor for long before heading...

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

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

Henry A. Tacket began training at Treasure Island in San Francisco for his assignment to a new destroyer. That was...

Mason Dorsey was born in July 1925 in Chester, South Carolina. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

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