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Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

Douglas Harper, one of three sons, grew up in Tri-City Beach, east of Baytown, Texas and south of Cedar Bayou, Texas....

Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Nicholas J. Zuras was born in Washington D.C. in July 1918. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...

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

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,...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the time his submarine [Annotator's Note: the USS...

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

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