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Norris Elwyn Gwin was born in June 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an only child. His father was a veteran of World War...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Fred Arthur Balfour was born in August 1923, in Glens Falls, New York. He lived there until he was 12 years old. When...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

George Sakato was born in Colton, California at a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific hub for the Railroad company. His...

George Scholes was flown to Pearl Harbor, which was just a muddy mess then. Much of the damage from the attack had been...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Wim de Jonge was drafted into the Dutch Army [Annotator's Note: de Jonge was drafted into the Koninklijk Nederlandsch-...

Merrill was returning from a search mission just as the Doolittle Raiders were taking off from the Hornet [Annotator's...

Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

Homer Myers was born in Union Grove, North Carolina in October 1924. His parents worked hard on a little farm. He got...

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