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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...

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts mid-conversation. Jacklyn Lucas is saying that he had skin taken from his butt and...

It was the habit of Richard Pipes' college fraternity brothers to sit around and listen to the radio, and it was a...

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

Around noon on 7 December 1941, James Shoemaker, his family, and friends were still hiding in the bomb shelter [...

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

Joseph Richard was a welder aboard the USS Rigel (AR-11) when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He took a small boat...

John Ericson went walking in Bowne Park in Flushing [Annotator's Note: Flushing, Queens, New York, New York] with his...

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...

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

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