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

The Yorktown [Annotators Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] ended up getting the worst of it in the form of aerial and...

Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

George Ingram was born in December 1918 in Mellow Valley, in Clay County, Alabama, one of the seven children of a...

Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

George Haines was top in points and could go home or stay near the war's end. He went to Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan for...

Cleveland Peterson's most memorable experience was being close to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. During the...

James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...

Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...

Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

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

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