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Thomas Murphy was born in New York City in 1926. His mother died during the birth and he was raised by guardians in...

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

Robert “Bob” Bowron was born in Birmingham [Annotator’s Note: Birmingham, Alabama] in January 1927. He recalled when...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

Harold G. Cowart was born in September 1924 in Statesboro, Georgia. His parents were sharecroppers and he and his 11...

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

Clyde Barber was born in May 1924 in Drennan, Colorado. Each of his five brothers and one sister were born in different...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds can be heard chirping in the background throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was born in...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

James Patterson was born in 1921 in Portland, Tennessee. He has one brother and one sister. He is the oldest child. His...

The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

On 7 December 1941, Walter Douglas recalled that he was sitting in an apartment in Washington D.C. listening to the...

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