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Carroll Knutson was born in March 1924 in Santa Monica, California. Both his parents had children from their previous...

Archibald Higgins was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. He did not know where the location...

Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy aboard the submarine USS Seadragon. Killam had reported aboard...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was born in December 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was seven, he spent the summer at...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk's most memorable experience of the...

Oran Harris said that while he was on Palawan, he learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt had died, and the news made him...

[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer and interviewee introducing themselves.] Raymond VanDuzer was...

Morton Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1926. He grew up there, with younger twin siblings, the...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

John Howland had taken flight courses and was ready to join the Air Force but was restricted from becoming a pilot...

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