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[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in the 52nd Defense...

Herbert Weatherwax was drafted into the military when he was 24 years old. He had a problem with alcohol while he was...

John Laborde was at home and sitting down to Sunday lunch when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was in ROTC [...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Arthur Smith if he recalls where he was or what he was doing when the Japanese...

Walter Bud Gafford was present on the morning of 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked [Annotator's Note: the...

James Fitzmorris grew up in Depression-era New Orleans, Louisiana in the Irish Channel neighborhood. They did not know...

On Sunday, 7 December 1941, Donald Popham was in a movie theater when the demand flashed on the screen for all military...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

William Myers, Jr. described submarine school at Pearl Harbor as good and not good; he hated training in the pressure...

Bernice Williams was in Milwaukee [Annotator's Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin] and heard about the attack [Annotator's Note...

Clyde Nordstrom was born in June 1928 in Minneapolis [Annotator's Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota]. He had a good time...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

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