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Louis Conter left the USS Arizona (BB-39) via a liberty boat after her fatal bombing. He boarded the boat near number...

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

David Flynn has written an account of the events of 7 December 1941. He recorded receiving the announcement of the...

Alton R. Barnes was born in December 1923 in Oxford, Alabama. He grew up in Talladega County where his father was in...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

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

Russell Brien was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but he does not know exactly where he was. He...

Norma Jean Ford Beard was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in June 1944. Her father was a B-24 pilot [Annotator's Note:...

After Pearl Harbor, Herbert Gross was drafted. He had a brief basic training program. By August 1942, he had started...

Carl Light was born in a small town in southern Missouri and was inducted at Fort Leonard Wood [Annotator's Note: Fort...

There were many gold stars in the windows around Lorraine Mesken's home, and she remembers helping to console mothers...

Daniel J. Lennon was born in February 1925 in Vienna, Austria. His father was in graduate school for medicine. They...

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