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Chester Biernacki and the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] returned to the United States after the Pearl...

Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

Raymond Cauble was born in Blue Island, Illinois in February 1918. His father was a carpenter and contractor. He was...

Jack T. Beverstein was born in 1925 in South Bend, Indiana. He grew up during the Great Depression, but it had little...

Olin Tisdale was born in April 1925 in Bluff Springs, Florida. Although his father had a farm and ran a grocery store...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...

Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....

Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

Phyllis Lenhard was born in August 1919 in Lorain, Ohio. Her only brother was a goalie on the Red Wings [Annotator's...

Olin Tisdale's newly launched ship was meant to take a Seabee unit to Iwo Jima to refurbish landing strips. However,...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

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