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Robert Heller was born in December 1921 in Lake Wood, Ohio and became a member of the United States Army's 91st Bomb...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

Henry A. Tacket began training at Treasure Island in San Francisco for his assignment to a new destroyer. That was...

Walter Bowsher had difficulties obtaining stamps. [Annotator's Note: Bowsher was the Marine postmaster in the 1st...

Gene Alair was assigned to a Transport Division Staff, CTD8, as a flag secretary and navigator aboard the USS Astoria (...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Tyler was working in the information center receiving radar reports on the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack [...

Francis Hurd was born in Woodhall, New York to parents who were farmers. When he was 16 years old he was forced to quit...

Jack Lengsfield remembers that he didn't know of the existence of Pearl Harbor until he heard the radio announcement...

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

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

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