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Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

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

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...

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

[Annotator's Note: Roswell Weil served in the Army as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps and was called to active...

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

Barbara Pathe was born in Bethel, Ohio. She lived there until she was eight years old. She had an older brother, an...

Daniel J. Lennon was born in February 1925 in Vienna, Austria. His father was in graduate school for medicine. They...

Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Olin Tisdale went back to the Pacific to help train a new fighter squadron on F8Fs [Annotator's Note: Grumann F8F...

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