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When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

Hartsel Ross was born in January 1926 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Ross heard the news of the attacks on Pearl Harbor [...

Joe Clapper remembers being on a date at a movie theater on Pearl Harbor Day. When he came out, newsboys were peddling...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285) enjoyed free time at Brisbane [Annotator's...

Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith's oldest brother, John Joseph, whose nickname was "Jody", enlisted in the Navy prior...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. was born in March 1920 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of eight children and was...

Joseph Daquarna learned about the USS Missouri (BB-63) going to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony following the end...

Thomas J. Blakey was born in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1920. [Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Blakey where he was...

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...

After Willie D. Knippers completed his medical field training at Camp Barkeley, Texas, he was sent to California for...

David Dawson was born in October 1924 in Tampa, Florida. They moved to Gary, Indiana when he was two years old. His...

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