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Lily Sawada was 14 years old and in high school when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. The school was very...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

Walter Broll always had a haircut on Saturday. He would then go to confession since he was raised a Catholic. On one...

After leaving Pearl Harbor, William Roy and the rest of the crew of the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5...

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

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...

Robert A. Stachel was born in June 1924 in Hamtramck, Michigan. Growing up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the...

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

Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was born in Mount Hope, Kansas in November 1921. His family moved to Opelousas [Annotator's Note...

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

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