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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...

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

Lee R. Broussard was born in December 1925 in Loreauville, Louisiana. His father was a construction worker and then...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes was named after his uncle on his father's side. As a kid, he wanted a simple name like...

Lloyd Duncan was born in 1926 in Coffeyville, Kansas. His father worked for the Sinclair Refinery. Duncan had one...

Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

Carl Caffarel was at Columbia University in New York, taking final exams [Annotator's Note: which were abandoned], when...

When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....

When John Caraway boarded the USS Bridge (AF-1), he found it to be not only one of the oldest ships in the Navy's fleet...

Carl Landwehr was born in 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never had a lot of money, but they never really...

Joseph Orlando was assigned to Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, Massachusetts to be a Drill Instructor but it...

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