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Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

John Howland had taken flight courses and was ready to join the Air Force but was restricted from becoming a pilot...

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

Robert Oplinger participated in several battles before Okinawa. It took three months for the United States for defeat...

Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

Ernest Chauvin was born in Houma, Louisiana in October 1925. He lived there until he was drafted in 1943 or 1944. His...

The day after the attack [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor], Fred Aldridge...

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

Robert Templet was aboard the USS Roxanne (AKA-37) when the Japanese surrendered. During the course of the war, the...

Obie Wickersham was born in March 1925 in Oklahoma. One of the legacies of his father's World War 1 service was...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

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