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Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

Harry Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in August 1926. His father was a glazier, his mother a housewife and he...

On 28 August [Annotator's Note: 28 August 1944], LST-1047 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank], the ship to which...

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

Doctor Frances Tunnell Carter was born in May 1922 in Springville, Mississippi. Her father was an insurance man during...

Hawk's father had served in the Army Coast Artillery in the Philippines during World War I and woke Hawk up at 3 in the...

Joseph Rockforte was born in 1922 in what is now Plaquemine, Louisiana. After he was born his father moved the family...

About eight months after the Helena went down [Annotator's Note: the USS Helena (CL-50) was sunk during the Battle of...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...

Reflecting on the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lauren Bruner still gets emotional. He discusses a...

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