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

William Patrick Bonelli retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1960. On the night of 6 December 1941, Bonelli was in...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

William Cart was born in April 1922 in Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina]. He grew up on the...

Roland Chaisson volunteered for the Army when he was 17. He didn't like the Navy and the Marine Corps sounded too tough...

John Finn was on the opposite side of the island from Pearl Harbor, at Kaneohe Bay, and he heard terrible explosions,...

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

Donald Albert Carlson was in high school [Annotator's Note: when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

William Braddock reached Hawaii after his stateside Marine Corps training. Hawaii was nice. He was stationed on Ford...

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

Frank Maresca had just finished eating Sunday dinner and had turned on the radio to listen to a ball game. During the...

Amelia Taylor discussed the developments of the war while she was in high school. It was very real to them. They...

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