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

Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

Calvin B. Moore was born in December 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

James Armstrong was born in Bradenton, Florida and attended high school there [Annotator's Note: he doesn't specify his...

Jimmy Doi was born in Oxnard, California in 1925. Growing up in California was great until the war started. Doi was 16...

Emory Maurice Ornelles joined the Army at the Honolulu Armory [Annotator's Note: he had just witnessed Japanese planes...

Norman Neste was born in August 1923 in Hemet, California. His father was a housing contractor and they did well during...

Katherine Croft was born in 1939 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Her father worked there briefly as an architect, and then...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

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