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Ralph Francis Hogan was born in February 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of ten children. His dad owned his...

Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...

Earl Forstall is from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was studying mechanical engineering at Tulane University when the war...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

Marvin Perrett was born in September 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was on his way home from church with his...

Claude Bufford Shaw was born in Marie, Arkansas, in 1918. When his Midshipman class graduated on 13 December 1941, he...

Fiske Hanley was born in January 1920 in Brownwood, Texas, one of the five children in his family. Although he grew up...

Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

When Stanley Boyd Nance was 19 years old, he was called to do a two-year mission in Tahiti [Annotator’s Note: Tahiti,...

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941], J. W. Childs saw one Japanese...

Earl Williams reflects on his World War 2 experiences during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He recalls the chaos...

Moses Hogan doesn't think movies about Pearl Harbor are authentic. After Pearl Harbor, Hogan was on a destroyer [...

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