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Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

Douglas Harper remembers everyone starting to talk about going home [Annotator's Note: after the war in the Pacific...

Austin Hustead was born in 1923 in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, where he also spent his youth. The youngest of three...

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

Vernon Cummings had the opportunity to voyage on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) with his son in 1977. His...

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

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

Norman Bussel worked building B-25 bombers [Annotator’s Note: North American B-25 Mitchell] at the Fisher Body plant [...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

In 1944, Roy Stewart was shipped out with the 24th Marine Regiment, although he was not attached to that regiment. They...

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

David Flynn has written an account of the events of 7 December 1941. He recorded receiving the announcement of the...

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